# fortrabbit blog > Official fortrabbit company blog with announcements, product updates, tutorials, and community stories. ## Documentation Sets - [fortrabbit blog — full content](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/llms-full.txt): Complete text of all blog posts. ## Blog posts All fortrabbit blog posts. - [10 pillars of modern PHP development](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/10-pillars-php-dev.md): Our best practices in PHP application design - [1,000 developers](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/1000-developers.md): Our first 4 digits number! Thank you for your interest in our service! - [20 years Pretty Home Pages](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/20-years-pretty-home-pages.md): Just a fancy info-graphic to say happy birthday to PHP. - [Updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/2014-03-13-changelog.md) - [Updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/2014-03-30-changelog.md) - [Updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/2014-04-14-changelog.md) - [Updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/2014-10-24-changelog.md) - [Our Drupal 8 install guide took 540 days](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/540-days-for-drupal8-install-guide.md): What took us so long to come up with a Drupal 8 install guide. - [A Coders Survey](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/a-coders-survey.md): Asking developers about their preferences. - [About a recent security patch](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/about-a-recent-security-patch.md): About things that are usually not visible. - [Online text editors](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/about-new-online-text-editors.md): Web IDEs everywhere! Are they any good? What's the buzz? - [About PaaS pricing](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/about-paas-pricing.md): Value-based VS cost-based pricing for a hosting service. - [About writable storage in modern hosting](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/about-writable-storage-in-modern-hosting.md): New-school cloud or legacy LAMP style — what's state of the art in PHP hosting? - [Action-oriented UX](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/action-oriented-ux.md): Verbs first for interfaces with more natural language. - [Add-Ons markdown](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/add-ons-markdown.md): Price reductions for: Memcache, MySQL and Workers. - [Your responsibility: App security](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/app-security.md): Ultimately, you are responsible for your code and as well for the 3rd party code you rely on. - [Autoscaling now available](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/autoscaling-now-available.md): Components auto-adjust plans based on usage. - [Battling with billing](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/battling-billing.md): How hustling with accounting keeps us away from developing our service. - [BETA begins](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/beta-begins.md): The private BETA for for our upcoming platform. - [BETA survey results](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/beta-survey-results.md): Analysing the answers of our questionnaire. - [Introducing a better domain handling](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/better-domain-handling.md): A more helpful UI + forwarding naked domains. - [Billing provider research](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/billing-research.md): Looking for a billing provider. - [Blackfire profiler on fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/blackfire-profiler-on-fortrabbit.md): Blackfire profiler BETA is now available at fortrabbit. - [That bounced payment](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/bounced-payment.md): Insights on how we deal with bounced payments - [Building websites in the age of AI](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/building-websites-in-the-age-of-ai.md): Good luck if you still create websites for a living. - [Sudden traffic peak](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/case-study-sudden-traffic-peak.md): A case study. - [Celebrating one year of fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/celebrating-one-year-of-fortrabbit.md): Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! - [Chasing 408](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/chasing-408.md): Those random 408 errors should finally be resolved! - [Chromopoly](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/chromopoly.md): Mixed feelings about Google Chrome. - [Is PaaS dead?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/cloudscapes-rerevisited.md): Trends, pivots & troubles in PaaS hosting 2015 - [Cloudscapes revisited](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/cloudscapes-revisited-php-cloud-overview.md): A state of the PHP cloud hosting scene overview. - [CMS, quo vadis?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/cms-quo-vadis.md): Are content management systems ready for the cloud? - [Cold outreach](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/cold-outreach.md): Artificial Intelligence is a good spammer. - [Cloudscapes - Comparing PHP Cloud Hosting Platforms](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms.md): What PHP cloud platforms are currently actually out there? - [Composer 2 is about to land on fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/composer-2-availability.md): Composer 2 will soon be available here. What you need to know. - [Covid-19 info for clients](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/covid-19-info.md): How we prepared for the virus and what you can do. - [Craft CMS CVE-2023-41892](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-cms-cve-2023-41892.md): Update your Craft CMS 4 installation. There is a low-effort high-impact vulnerability out there. - [Craft CMS CVE 2025-32432](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-cms-cve-2025-32432.md): High-impact low effort vulnerability. - [Frontend testing for Craft CMS](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-cms-frontend-testing-with-codeception-and-cypress.md): Using Codeception and Cypress to test Craft CMS websites. - [Testing Craft CMS sites with Pest](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-cms-pestphp-testing.md): Using Pest to test Craft CMS websites. - [User account management with Craft CMS](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-cms-user-account-management.md): Ready-to-use templates and detailed explanation of how they work - [Craft Copy 1.0 released](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-copy-1-released.md): Our command line tool to help with Craft CMS deployment on fortrabbit is now production grade ready. - [We are a Craft Hosting Partner](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-hosting-partner.md): fortrabbit is now an official Hosting Partner for Craft CMS. - [Image processing in Craft CMS with the Image Toolbox plugin](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-image-transform-toolbox.md): How to migrate an App to the new version of MySQL here - [Craft Nitro 2 first look: How to quickly set up a local Craft CMS dev site](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-nitro-2-first-look-how-to-quickly-set-up-a-local-craft-cms-dev-site.md) - [Things to know about fast Craft CMS websites](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/craft-performance-tuning-debugging.md): What we learned helping clients improving Craft CMS performance - [Custom HTTP Error Pages (Sneek Peek)](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/custom-http-error-pages.md): Putting the pieces together: our PHP platform is shaping. We are currently running lot's of tests and we are looking forward to start the private BETA soon. But there always should be some time for details. Have a look at our custom handmade error pages: - [Damn, we got pwned](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/damn-we-got-pwned.md): fortrabbit under attack. - [Dashboard improvements](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/dashboard-improvements.md): Quicker boarding, App access links and more. - [Deploying code with rsync](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/deploying-code-with-rsync.md): Learn how to use rsync from the command line to deploy code changes (to our Universal Apps) incredibly fast. - [E-commerce in 2016](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/ecommerce-status-quo-2016.md): What's going on in e-commerce? - [Essential metrics are here](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/essential-metrics-are-here.md): New features just landed - [My favorite Facebook bot designs](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/favorite-facebook-bot-designs.md): The bizarre beauty of brutalist Facebook reaction bots. - [File-based CMS overview](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/file-based-cms-2016.md): Thoughts on flat file CMS and static site generators, mostly PHP-related. - [First fortran PaaS](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/first-fortran-paas.md): Breaking news, fortrabbit releases a brand new stack. - [A first look at the new Craft Nitro development tool](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/first-look-craft-nitro-development-tool.md): The new tool by Pixel & Tonic, can we recommend it yet? - [Hiccups](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/fortrabbit-hiccups-behind-the-scenes.md): Behind the scenes when something goes wrong. - [fortrabbit is GDPR ready](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/fortrabbit-is-gdpr-ready.md): GDPR is here. Wat is changing for our clients, what not, why and when. - [Fortrabbit PHPipeline 2013](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/fortrabbit-phpipeline-2013.md): Our plans for the year. - [Bephpug](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/fortrabbit-talk-bephpug.md): We had the honor to present fortrabbit at the Berlin PHP usergroup. - [User survey results](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/fortrabbit-user-survey-results.md): Results and learnings from our latest questionnaire among our users with 327 answers. - [Frank at SaaS Unbound Podcast](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/frank-at-saas-unbound.md): fortrabbit co-founder Frank on a podcast (1h). - [Free web hosting](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/free-web-hosting.md): Flat, unlimited and forever it shall be. - [Freemium or free trial?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/freemium-or-free-trial.md): Is freemium the right business model for our service or shall we switch to a free trial model? - [Freemium VS Bootstrapped](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/freemium-vs-bootstrapped.md): Bootstrapping in Berlin. - [Working with geographic features and spatial data in MySQL 8](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/geographic-features-spatial-data-mysql-8.md): How to implement geo features in MySQL 8 - [Goodbye and hello](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/goodbye-hello.md): Farewell sharp rectangles, hello soft corners. - [Goodbye WebRechnung](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/goodbye-webrechnung.md): Shutting down an old fortrabbit service. - [Growing ANAME / ALIAS support](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/growing-aname-alias-support.md): More DNS providers now support direct bare domain to host routing. - [About Composer](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/handle-your-dependencies-with-php-composer.md): How to handle your dependencies with PHP Composer. - [Headless PHP](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/headless-php.md): Decoupled websites with PHP and JS. - [Heartbleed](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/heartbleed-openssl-vulnerability.md): This exploit is a vulnerability in the heartbeat of TLS in the OpenSSL implementation. We're patched up by now. - [Hello Teutonic CSS](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/hello-teutonic-css.md): Some details on our open source CSS framework. - [fortrabbit just launched in the US](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/hello-us.md): New data center location, new currency - [Hello world!](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/hello-world.md): The obvious first post claiming we are here to take over the world. - [A web hosting control panel with a social network you say?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/hosting-panel-with-social-network.md): Next level collaboration features for the new platform. - [Performance / convenience](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/hosting-performance-hosting-convenience.md): What's more important in hosting? Performance or convenience? - [How to detect and fix a hacked PHP website](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/how-to-detect-and-fix-a-hacked-php-website.md): Got pwned? Regain control. - [How to get good support](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/how-to-get-good-support.md): Successful communication in customer support chat channels. - [How to keep a secret](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/how-to-keep-a-secret.md): Passwords in Git is bad, ENV vars considered harmful, now what? - [Deploy to fortrabbit with GitHub Actions](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/how-to-use-github-actions.md): Why not automate this? Let's use the new cool kid in town. - [How we do transactional e-mails](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/how-we-do-transactional-mail.md): Our real-live practices on auto-generated client e-mail communication. - [How we estimate hosting resources](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/how-we-estimate-hosting-recources.md): 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. - [How we hire](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/how-we-hire.md): How to not get an interview here. - [HTTP/2 reality check](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/http2-reality-check.md): How we tried to test the speed benefits of the new internet protocol. - [httpSpeedy?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/httpspeedy.md): HTTP/2 expectations and pitfalls - [I love assets](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/i-love-assets.md): CSS, JS and Images, how to generate and to deploy. - [Image processing services intro](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/image-optimization-services-overview.md): A field guide on image transformation and optimization providers - [ImageMagick issues](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/imagemagick-issues.md): The backstory of recent issues related to image transformations. - [imageMagick patch 2](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/imagemagick-update-2019-08.md): Some smaller internal improvements mostly on imageMagick ahead. - [Improving DX for executing scripts](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/improving-dx-for-executing-scripts.md): Modifying C standard library to evaluate shebang in the user space - [Looking for the perfect infra provider](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/infra-research-2024.md): How we are evaluating an infrastructure provider for our new platform - [Integrating codeship with fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/integrating-codeship-with-fortrabbit.md): Learn how to do continuous integration with Codehip on fortrabbit. - [Introducing 2FA](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/introducing-2fa.md): More Account security settings. - [fortrabbit agent skills — early preview](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/introducing-agent-skills.md): Teach your AI coding buddy how to manage fortrabbit apps. - [Introducing Craft Copy](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/introducing-craft-copy.md): A command line tool to help with Craft CMS deployment on fortrabbit. - [Introducing password authentication + dynamic help](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/introducing-password-authentication.md): Better Windows support and smoother boarding. - [Introducing Upper](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/introducing-upper.md): A Craft CMS plugin to help you with pull-CDNs - [Introducing the 'client invite'](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/invite-the-client.md): You can now transfer Apps to your clients! - [Laracon observations](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/laracon-observations.md): What we have learned on the Laracon conference 2013 in Amsterdam. - [Lee Tengum about offload.io](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/lee-tengum-about-offload-io.md): A client interview from the real world client. - [Let's Encrypt root certificate change](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/lets-encrypt-new-root.md): Let's Encrypt will change its root certificates. Learn how this might affect you as a fortrabbit client. - [Quickly set up a local Craft CMS dev site with the DDEV development tool](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/local-craft-dev-site-ddev-development-tool.md): Install the DDEV and power existing Craft CMS development sites. - [The perfect PHP platform manifest](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/looking-for-the-perfect-php-hosting-platform.md): Looking for the perfect PHP hosting platform. - [Market overview: CDN services](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/market-overview-cdn.md): An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly CDN services. - [Market overview: Domain services for developers](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/market-overview-domain-providers.md): An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly domain hosting services. - [Market overview: Email services for business and private](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/market-overview-email-as-a-service.md): An opinionated field guide on Email as a Service providers. - [Transactional e-mails market overview](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/market-overview-transactional-mails.md): Why to use a service for transactional e-mails. - [Market overview: video hosting for business](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/market-overview-video-hosting.md): An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly video services. - [Mastering HTTP Caching](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mastering-http-caching.md): Learn how to use CDNs as an easy-to-use edge cache. - [Meanwhile at fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/meanwhile-at-fortrabbit.md): Finally HTTP/2 is here, as well as some other updates - [Migration help](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/migration-help.md): Helping existing users boarding the new dashboard. - [Platform updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/minor-platform-updates-2017-06.md): The update to the latest PHP versions caused a some downtime yesterday. - [Mission statement 2016](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mission-statement-2016.md): Where we are, what we are up to. - [Mission statement 2023](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mission-statement-2023.md): What we are up to now. - [New dashboard mission statement](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mission-statement-the-new-dashboard.md): What to expect from our new dashboard. - [Modern PHP monoliths](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/modern-php-monoliths.md): Coupled websites with PHP and JS. - [Multi stage deployment](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/multi-stage-deployment-for-website-development.md): How to setup a production/development work-flow for website development. - [MySQL 8 is now available for Pro Apps](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mysql-8-now-available-for-pro-apps.md): We are finally making MySQL 8 available. What clients need to know about the roll-out. - [MySQL 8 upgrade plan](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mysql-8-upgrade-plan.md): How to migrate an App to the new version of MySQL here - [MySQL 8 upgrades](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mysql-8-upgrades.md): FYI: Remaining Apps are going to be migrated to MySQL 8 - [MySQL Backups for Pro Apps](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mysql-backups-for-pro-apps.md): Now available: Automated backups for Professional Apps. - [MySQL with JSON in Laravel](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/mysql-json-column-with-laravel.md): Learn about JSON columns in MySQL and how to use them in Laravel. - [Dropbox as a cloud storage](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-app-cloud-storage-dropbox.md): How to enable Dropbox as your App's persistent cloud storage. - [S3 as a cloud storage](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-app-cloud-storage-s3.md): How to setup Amazon S3 as a cloud storage for your App. - [New Apps are here](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-apps-are-here.md): Introducing the New Apps in BETA. - [Announcing GA for New Apps](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-apps-ga.md): Scalable, extensible and with even more features - [New features at fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-at-fortrabbit-2022-04.md): Basic WAF, Craft Copy for Nitro, Craft Copy for Craft CMS 4 - [A new blog layout, a new engine](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-blog-layout.md): Tinkering with static site generation. - [New dashboard migration guide](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-dashboard-migration-guide.md): Learn what is going to change with the new dashboard. - [New dashboard supervision](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-dashboard-supervision.md): We are listening. Feedback is welcome. - [App collaboration & owner transfer](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-features-app-collaboration-transfer.md): New features in the dashboard. - [New fortrabbit.com teaser page](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-fortrabbit-com-teaser-page.md): Help us build the perfect platform for you — answer 20 questions. - [New platform public BETA](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-platform-beta.md): A new hosting experience at your fingertips. - [New Relic BYOL](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-relic-byol.md): We now have the New Relic demon running. - [The new stack chooser](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-stack-chooser.md): Choose a framework or CMS to get started more quickly. - [New Worker Component released](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-worker-released.md): Outsource that heavy lifting in the background — now you can. - [New year cleanup](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/new-year-cleanup-maintenance.md): Announcing upcoming maintenance work. - [Object Storage launched](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/object-storage-launched.md): A new integrated S3 compatible cloud storage is here. - [Old App migration program](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/old-app-migration-program.md): We are manually moving many Old Apps to Universal Apps to avoid downtime and data loss for stragglers. - [On horizontal scaling](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/on-horizontal-scaling.md): Why we plan to drop a signature feature of the Pro Stack. - [On password security](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/on-password-security.md): Discussing usability, culture and security. - [On upcoming PHP deadlines](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/on-php-deadlines.md): PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 deadlines: Why is so much old PHP around? What we will do! - [On technical limits](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/on-technical-limits.md): Fail early they say. Don't throw hardware on performance problems we say.contributions. - [Yes, we love open source](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/open-source-at-fortrabbit.md): Props to the OSS communities and highlighting some of our open source contributions. - [Opinionated Craft CMS 4 upgrade guide](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/opinionated-craft-4-upgrade-guide.md): Everything you always wanted to know about updating to Craft 4 - but were afraid to ask. - [Optional PHP extensions](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/optional-php-extensions.md): Have you seen our new PHP settings page? - [The story of our new ENV vars edit experience](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/our-new-env-var-edit-experience.md): Building a fairly simple looking feature. - [How we chose our new frontend stack](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/our-new-frontend-stack.md): So many options - React, Svelte, Vue, Nuxt, htmx, Interia, Livewire. What to choose for our new web properties? - [New status page](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/our-new-status-page.md): Finally we have a dedicated downtime communication channel. - [Vendor locked-in buzz](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/paas-vendor-locked-in-buzz.md): How bound are you to your hosting provider? Does this really matter? - [PHP 5.5 and improved deployment](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-5-5-and-improved-deployment.md): PHP 5.5 is finally here. This and some other news. - [PHP 7.1 is slowly fading out](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-71-fade-out.md): Informations on upcoming PHP 7.1 switch off here. - [PHP 7.1 is here](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-71-released.md): We have released PHP 7.1 for all Universal and Professional Apps. - [PHP 7.2 support to end soon](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-72-eol.md): What you might want to know about the upcoming EOL of PHP 7.2. - [PHP 7.3 support to end soon](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-73-eol.md): What you might want to know about the upcoming EOL of PHP 7.3. - [PHP 7.4 support to end some day](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-74-eol.md): Client information for the end of life of PHP 7.4. - [PHP 7.4 and other updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-74-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP 8.0.12](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-8-0-12-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP 8](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-8-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP 8.1](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-81-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP 8.2](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-82-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP 8.3](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-83-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP 8.4](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-84-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP 8.5](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-85-update.md): Changelog on new versions. - [PHP & JS?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-and-js.md): Is something missing to bring together JS and PHP? - [PHP 5.6 & PHP 7.0 EOL FAQ](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-eol-faq.md): What else you need to know about the upcoming EOL of the two PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0. - [PHP Hosting Possibilities](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-hosting-possibilities.md): A stubborn analysis of hosting solutions for developers. - [PHP renaissance collection](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-renaissance-collection.md): Some links on newish PHP. - [Testing code for PHP 7](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-testing.md): How to check your PHP code for future compability. - [PHP 7.2 upgrade path](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-upgrade-path.md): Migrating your Apps to PHP 7.2 here on fortrabbit. - [PHP upgrade path (5.4), 5.6, 7.0](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/php-upgrade-path-5-4-5-6-7-0.md): Which PHP versions we'll support when. - [Platform updates, April 2026](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/platform-updates-april-2026.md): Smoother flows, smarter deployments, and better docs. - [Post mortem September maintenance](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/post-mortem-september-2023-maintenance.md): Details on recent rocky updates - [Post mortem for `Under the hood updates`](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/post-mortem-under-the-hood-2019-06.md): Some details on recent platform problems. - [Privacy Shield considered obsolete, possible impacts on our hosting platform](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/privacy-shield-obsolete-our-thoughts.md): The Privacy Shield is no longer valid. How to proceed? - [Release early, release often](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/release-early-release-often.md): Our iterative approach. - [Remote SSH execution is here](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/remote-ssh-execution-released.md): Learn how to enhance your workflows with this new feature. - [Roadmap to Hack App](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/roadmap-to-hack-app.md): Where we are heading to. - [Craft CMS SEOmatic exploit info](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/seomatic-exploit.md): How to check your website and how to clean up. - [September 2023 updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/september-2023-updates.md): Changelog on new versions. - [Small Dashboard improvements](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/small-improvements.md): .env import and domain DNS checks! - [Small team, big ideas](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/small-team-big-ideas.md): How we manage ambition with limited resources. - [Sneak peek](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/sneak-peek.md): A new Hobby line, migration info for Old App owners. - [SSH Upgrade: PHP CLI and Git](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/ssh-upgrade-php-cli-and-git.md): As many of you requested: PHP and Git on the shell are here! - [Poodle](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/ssl-v3-disabled-poodle-vulnerability.md): SSL Poodle is already patched — no further action required. - [Status update](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/status-update.md): What's currently happening here and what's not. - [Sunsetting a few features](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/sunsetting-a-few-features.md): The SMTP Wrapper and the ReSync Tool will go away. - [Sunsetting freemium](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/sunsetting-freemium.md): Yep, we are going to replace our freemium with a free trial model. - [Support as a Service](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/support-as-a-service.md): Enhancing our platform with professional & reliable developer to developer support. - [Support driven development](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/support-driven-development.md): How we use client feedback to shape our service. - [Support pages are on now](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/support-pages-are-on-now.md): About the the new fortrabbit knowledge base. - [Survey results](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/survey-results.md): What our users are saying and what we think it means. - [Take off](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/take-off-fortrabbit-php-platform-launched.md): fortrabbit PHP platform launched - [Green cloud?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-cloud-economically-attractive-but-what-the-about-ecological-impact.md): The cloud: economically attractive, but what the about ecological impact? - [The freemium hosting business model](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-freemium-hosting-business-models-our-thoughts.md): Is there such actually free web hosting? - [Decoupled hosting](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-idea-of-decoupled-hosting.md): Modularize everything! - [New boarding bonus](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-new-boarding-bonus.md): Claim an extra credit for an even better test drive of our platform. - [The new Dashboard is here](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-new-dashboard-is-here.md): That's one small step for mankind, a giant leap for us. - [New tasklist](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-new-tasklist.md): Introducing a more fair and more fun freemium model. - [The Roadmap](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-roadmap.md): By 2009, computers will disappear. - [The story of our new invoice number format](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-story-of-our-new-invoice-numbers.md): How our new invoice numbers are structured and what went wrong when we rolled it out. - [New write protection](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-story-of-our-new-write-protection-feature.md): Abot a new security feature. - [The tyranny of inconsistent keyboard shortcuts](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/the-tyranny-of-inconsistent-keyboard-shortcuts.md): Keyboard shortcuts are my productivity fuel. Navigating inconsistent keyboard shortcut landscapes across different programs feels like an obstacle course. A significant number of interactions remain universal across software. Why then, must we relearn basic actions like "insert link" with every new tool? - [3 ways to reset the Craft CMS control panel password](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/three-ways-to-reset-the-craft-cms-control-panel-password-without-email-access.md): Need to reset your Craft CMS admin password but email functionality isn't working? - [TLS free launched](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/tls-free-launched.md): Free SSL certificates for custom domains via Let's Encrypt are here now. - [Tools for PHP development — local dev site setup](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/tools-for-php-development-local-dev-site-setup.md): What PHP development tools are available? What are the pros and cons of each tool? - [Under the hood updates](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/under-the-hood-updates-2019-06.md): Some internal changes ahead - [Universal App pricing V2 is here](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/universal-pricing-v2.md): More powerful plans, same price level. - [Universal Stack changelog](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/universal-stack-changelog.md): See all platform changes with new Universal Stack. - [Universal Stack launched](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/universal-stack-launched.md): Optimized for CMS driven websites - made for your needs: Backups, Git, SFTP, HTTPS & team collaboration. - [Patch updates ahead](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/updates-ahead-2019-10.md): Patches for all PHP versions planned. - [Us against them as a spectator from the sidelines](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/us-against-them.md): fortrabbit uses AWS, about EU data sovereignty and privacy trends. - [Use Codio with fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/use-codio-with-fortrabbit.md): How to integrate the web IDE codio here on fortrabbit. - [Vertical browser tab challenges](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/vertical-browser-tabs.md): UX and web dev challenges. - [Vibe coding an RSS feed - how hard can it be?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/vibe-coding-an-rss-feed.md): It's trivial and non-critical. - [FuelPHP on fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/video-install-fuelphp-on-fortrabbit-with-git-and-phpstorm.md): This video show you how to install FuelPHP on fortrabbit with Git and PhpStorm. - [Install Laravel on fortrabbit with Git](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/video-install-laravel-on-fortrabbit-with-git.md): This video shows you how to run Laravel on fortrabbit - [Slim PHP on fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/video-install-slim-php-on-fortrabbit-with-git-composer.md): This videos shows you how to set up SlimPHP on fortrabbit with Git and Composer - [Symfony2 on fortrabbit](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/video-symfony2-on-fortrabbit.md): This video shows you how easy it is to set up Symfony on fortrabbit. - [Hello world with PHPStorm](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/video-yet-another-hello-world-with-phpstorm.md): This video shows you a simple example with PHPStorm and fortrabbit - [Web hosting and open source](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/web-hosting-and-open-source.md): It's complicated. The relation between open source and web hosting from our point of view - [What happened to our old WebHosting?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/what-happend-to-our-old-webhosting.md): tl;dr We used to bring modern cloud technologies such as Git code management and consumption based billing to a standardized Hosting environment. Now we go the other way around and bring some essential standards to the cloud._ - [The meat market](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/what-the-hosting-and-the-meat-market-have-in-common.md): What the hosting- and the meat-market have in common. - [Where to host my website now?](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/where-to-host-my-website-now.md): IaaS, PaaS, bare metal, shared hosting, managed hosting — Quo vadis? - [Why a GUI and not a CLI](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/why-gui-not-cli.md): An insight into product development at fortrabbit - [Why we don't do Add-Ons](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/why-we-dont-do-add-ons.md): Insights why we will not offer an Add-On program soon and what we have instead - [Worker Add-On released](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/worker-addon-released.md): We have a new Add-On: Workers! Learn about it and what you can do with it. - [www](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/www-musings-about-a-subdomain.md): Musings about the comon www. subdomain. - [New XSL support](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/xsl-supported-welcome-symphony-cms.md): Welcome Symphony CMS, we now support XSL. - [Yes, we rewrite](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/raw/yes-we-rewrite.md): Reflecting on our decision to do a big rewrite. ## Notes - site: https://blog.fortrabbit.com | contact: support@fortrabbit.com | owner: fortrabbit GmbH - web: www.fortrabbit.com (marketing) · docs.fortrabbit.com (docs) · dash.fortrabbit.com (dashboard) - indexing: allowed | excerpting: allowed | embedding: permitted | caching: transient | redistribution: prohibited - training: prohibited without permission — contact support@fortrabbit.com for permission requests - attribution required: "Source: blog.fortrabbit.com — " - license: copyright fortrabbit GmbH — https://www.fortrabbit.com/legal