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More DNS providers now support direct bare domain to host routing.

UX and web dev challenges.

High-impact low effort vulnerability.

Need to reset your Craft CMS admin password but email functionality isn't working?

How we use client feedback to shape our service.

So many options - React, Svelte, Vue, Nuxt, htmx, Interia, Livewire. What to choose for our new web properties?

Fail early they say. Don't throw hardware on performance problems we say.contributions.

Update your Craft CMS 4 installation. There is a low-effort high-impact vulnerability out there.

How to migrate an App to the new version of MySQL here

Ready-to-use templates and detailed explanation of how they work

Using Pest to test Craft CMS websites.

Everything you always wanted to know about updating to Craft 4 - but were afraid to ask.

Using Codeception and Cypress to test Craft CMS websites.

What we learned helping clients improving Craft CMS performance

How to implement geo features in MySQL 8

Learn about JSON columns in MySQL and how to use them in Laravel.

Our command line tool to help with Craft CMS deployment on fortrabbit is now production grade ready.

The new tool by Pixel & Tonic, can we recommend it yet?

Install the DDEV and power existing Craft CMS development sites.

What PHP development tools are available? What are the pros and cons of each tool?

Why not automate this? Let's use the new cool kid in town.

What else you need to know about the upcoming EOL of the two PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0.

A command line tool to help with Craft CMS deployment on fortrabbit.

How to check your PHP code for future compability.

Migrating your Apps to PHP 7.2 here on fortrabbit.

A Craft CMS plugin to help you with pull-CDNs

Some details on our open source CSS framework.

Ultimately, you are responsible for your code and as well for the 3rd party code you rely on.

An opinionated field guide on Email as a Service providers.

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly video services.

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly CDN services.

An opinionated field guide on developer-friendly domain hosting services.

Our real-live practices on auto-generated client e-mail communication.

The update to the latest PHP versions caused a some downtime yesterday.

Learn how to use rsync from the command line to deploy code changes (to our Universal Apps) incredibly fast.

Learn how to use CDNs as an easy-to-use edge cache.

Passwords in Git is bad, ENV vars considered harmful, now what?

Our best practices in PHP application design

CSS, JS and Images, how to generate and to deploy.

What our users are saying and what we think it means.

How to integrate the web IDE codio here on fortrabbit.

Learn how to do continuous integration with Codehip on fortrabbit.

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.

This video shows you how easy it is to set up Symfony on fortrabbit.

This video show you how to install FuelPHP on fortrabbit with Git and PhpStorm.

This videos shows you how to set up SlimPHP on fortrabbit with Git and Composer

This video shows you how to run Laravel on fortrabbit

This video shows you a simple example with PHPStorm and fortrabbit

How to setup a production/development work-flow for website development.

How to handle your dependencies with PHP Composer.

Asking developers about their preferences.

Web IDEs everywhere! Are they any good? What's the buzz?

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: