https://blog.fortrabbit.com/tag/opinion en Thu, 07 May 2026 08:40:39 GMT 10 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/us-against-them https://blog.fortrabbit.com/us-against-them Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion fortrabbit uses AWS, about EU data sovereignty and privacy trends. We are a German company running on American infrastructure, serving a global customer base. That is hard to defend these days. Caught between geopolitical fault lines.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cold-outreach https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cold-outreach Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:01:03 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Artificial Intelligence is a good spammer. My inbox is full of unsolicited business proposals. The senders know my name, my mail, my company, and often specific details about our company, despite most of this information never being publicly listed. AI meets leaked customer data.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/modern-php-monoliths https://blog.fortrabbit.com/modern-php-monoliths Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:17:01 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Coupled websites with PHP and JS. Web pages are so yesterday. Single-page apps are the shit. Users want interactive experiences. But you don't have to get headless right away. This is an introduction to coupled systems with PHP and JavaScript.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/headless-php https://blog.fortrabbit.com/headless-php Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:16:08 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Decoupled websites with PHP and JS. Decopuled systems. Frontend in JavaScript. Backend in PHP. Why. How. If.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/chromopoly https://blog.fortrabbit.com/chromopoly Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:44:24 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Mixed feelings about Google Chrome. The Google Chrome team is pushing the web forward. I am worried about competition, privacy and the future of web standards. No revealing news here, just my personal view based on vague pre-assumptions.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/building-websites-in-the-age-of-ai https://blog.fortrabbit.com/building-websites-in-the-age-of-ai Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:03:31 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Good luck if you still create websites for a living. Not too long ago, building a website meant crafting mockups in Photoshop, hand-coding HTML and PHP, wrangling CSS. Then came page builders, no-code and low-code tools. Now, with the rise of AI, the ground is shifting again. What does it possible mean for us? This is my unprofessional opinion.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/web-hosting-and-open-source https://blog.fortrabbit.com/web-hosting-and-open-source Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:46:16 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion changelog It's complicated. The relation between open source and web hosting from our point of view This is not about WordPress founder Matt, who is angry about the web hosting service WP-Engine. It's a much smaller story, it's ours.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/action-oriented-ux https://blog.fortrabbit.com/action-oriented-ux Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Verbs first for interfaces with more natural language. This is usability experience concept. Verb first interfaces to be closer to natural language and human thinking.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/on-horizontal-scaling https://blog.fortrabbit.com/on-horizontal-scaling Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Why we plan to drop a signature feature of the Pro Stack. Some clients asked us why we don't plan to provide horizontal scaling for the new platform in the making any more. Let me try to explain.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-and-js https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-and-js Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Is something missing to bring together JS and PHP? Is something missing to bring together JS and PHP?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/image-optimization-services-overview https://blog.fortrabbit.com/image-optimization-services-overview Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion A field guide on image transformation and optimization providers Learn about image processing service providers here. What are they? What problem do they solve? What options and alternatives are available?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/privacy-shield-obsolete-our-thoughts https://blog.fortrabbit.com/privacy-shield-obsolete-our-thoughts Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion The Privacy Shield is no longer valid. How to proceed? The European Court of Justice (EUCJ) invalidated the Privacy Shield agreement recently. This is what clients may want to know.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/on-php-deadlines https://blog.fortrabbit.com/on-php-deadlines Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 deadlines: Why is so much old PHP around? What we will do!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/open-source-at-fortrabbit https://blog.fortrabbit.com/open-source-at-fortrabbit Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Props to the OSS communities and highlighting some of our open source contributions. fortrabbit wouldn't be possible without great open source projects. So we are thinking about ways to give back.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-to-get-good-support https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-to-get-good-support Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Successful communication in customer support chat channels. Customer service is crucial, especially for hosting. Help us helping you! Get better answers faster. Learn how to ask.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/market-overview-transactional-mails https://blog.fortrabbit.com/market-overview-transactional-mails Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Why to use a service for transactional e-mails. This field guide helps understanding commercial services for transactional e-mails. What are they good for anyways?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-do-transactional-mail https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-do-transactional-mail Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer chronicles webdev opinion Our real-live practices on auto-generated client e-mail communication. Sending triggered standardized e-mails to clients is part of almost every web application. To get this right is crucial for business. This is about our own 'worst' practices — a nerdy article covering communication, design and web tech (PHP related).

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/file-based-cms-2016 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/file-based-cms-2016 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Thoughts on flat file CMS and static site generators, mostly PHP-related. Let's have a look at different types of database-less CMS — the candidates, the pros, the cons and what you need to consider when it comes to deployment & hosting.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/http2-reality-check https://blog.fortrabbit.com/http2-reality-check Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Object Storage — an integrated S3-compatible asset storage. One of the features is HTTP/2 support. So we were curious to see the performance improvements: How much faster is it actually? TLDR: It depends. And it turned out that testing is never easy.]]> How we tried to test the speed benefits of the new internet protocol. We have recently launched our Object Storage — an integrated S3-compatible asset storage. One of the features is HTTP/2 support. So we were curious to see the performance improvements: How much faster is it actually? TLDR: It depends. And it turned out that testing is never easy.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/why-we-dont-do-add-ons https://blog.fortrabbit.com/why-we-dont-do-add-ons Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Insights why we will not offer an Add-On program soon and what we have instead We have long thought about bringing Add-Ons to fortrabbit to make the service offering more versatile. Now, after lots' of research and discussions, we can finally conclude: We won't do it — for now. Here is why and what instead.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-rerevisited https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-rerevisited Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Trends, pivots & troubles in PaaS hosting 2015 A few years ago tech press and analysts praised the public PaaS model. What's going on now?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/ecommerce-status-quo-2016 https://blog.fortrabbit.com/ecommerce-status-quo-2016 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion What's going on in e-commerce? We are constantly on the lookout for new software. This is a brief look on current developments in the e-commerce section.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/httpspeedy https://blog.fortrabbit.com/httpspeedy Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion HTTP/2 expectations and pitfalls

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cms-quo-vadis https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cms-quo-vadis Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark opinion Are content management systems ready for the cloud?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-paas-pricing https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-paas-pricing Fri, 08 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Value-based VS cost-based pricing for a hosting service.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-hosting-possibilities https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-hosting-possibilities Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion A stubborn analysis of hosting solutions for developers.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/battling-billing https://blog.fortrabbit.com/battling-billing Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion How hustling with accounting keeps us away from developing our service.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/20-years-pretty-home-pages https://blog.fortrabbit.com/20-years-pretty-home-pages Wed, 28 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Just a fancy info-graphic to say happy birthday to PHP.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-revisited-php-cloud-overview https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-revisited-php-cloud-overview Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion A state of the PHP cloud hosting scene overview.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/first-fortran-paas https://blog.fortrabbit.com/first-fortran-paas Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Breaking news, fortrabbit releases a brand new stack.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/laracon-observations https://blog.fortrabbit.com/laracon-observations Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion What we have learned on the Laracon conference 2013 in Amsterdam.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-estimate-hosting-recources https://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-we-estimate-hosting-recources Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz webdev opinion We've recently upgraded our fortrabbit.com website, including a complete overhaul of our pricing visualization. The visualization is one thing, the other is our Map your App decision-helper: One of the major problems all hosting providers have to solve (or should at least try) is to make it transparent to the customer what kind of resources she needs. One of the major problems all hosting providers have to solve is to make it transparent to the customer what kind of resources she needs. Our Map your App helps.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/hosting-performance-hosting-convenience https://blog.fortrabbit.com/hosting-performance-hosting-convenience Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion What's more important in hosting? Performance or convenience?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/case-study-sudden-traffic-peak https://blog.fortrabbit.com/case-study-sudden-traffic-peak Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:07:19 GMT Oliver Stark opinion A case study.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/free-web-hosting https://blog.fortrabbit.com/free-web-hosting Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Flat, unlimited and forever it shall be.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-idea-of-decoupled-hosting https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-idea-of-decoupled-hosting Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Modularize everything!

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/where-to-host-my-website-now https://blog.fortrabbit.com/where-to-host-my-website-now Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion IaaS, PaaS, bare metal, shared hosting, managed hosting — Quo vadis?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-cloud-economically-attractive-but-what-the-about-ecological-impact https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-cloud-economically-attractive-but-what-the-about-ecological-impact Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion The cloud: economically attractive, but what the about ecological impact?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/what-the-hosting-and-the-meat-market-have-in-common https://blog.fortrabbit.com/what-the-hosting-and-the-meat-market-have-in-common Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion What the hosting- and the meat-market have in common.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/release-early-release-often https://blog.fortrabbit.com/release-early-release-often Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark opinion Our iterative approach.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-renaissance-collection https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-renaissance-collection Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Some links on newish PHP.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/freemium-vs-bootstrapped https://blog.fortrabbit.com/freemium-vs-bootstrapped Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Bootstrapping in Berlin.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/looking-for-the-perfect-php-hosting-platform https://blog.fortrabbit.com/looking-for-the-perfect-php-hosting-platform Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Oliver Stark opinion Looking for the perfect PHP hosting platform.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/beta-survey-results https://blog.fortrabbit.com/beta-survey-results Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Analysing the answers of our questionnaire.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/www-musings-about-a-subdomain https://blog.fortrabbit.com/www-musings-about-a-subdomain Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Musings about the comon www. subdomain.

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-new-online-text-editors https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-new-online-text-editors Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion webdev Web IDEs everywhere! Are they any good? What's the buzz?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-freemium-hosting-business-models-our-thoughts https://blog.fortrabbit.com/the-freemium-hosting-business-models-our-thoughts Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion Is there such actually free web hosting?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/paas-vendor-locked-in-buzz https://blog.fortrabbit.com/paas-vendor-locked-in-buzz Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion How bound are you to your hosting provider? Does this really matter?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-writable-storage-in-modern-hosting https://blog.fortrabbit.com/about-writable-storage-in-modern-hosting Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Ulrich Kautz opinion New-school cloud or legacy LAMP style — what's state of the art in PHP hosting?

]]> https://blog.fortrabbit.com/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms https://blog.fortrabbit.com/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Frank Lämmer opinion What PHP cloud platforms are currently actually out there?

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