Engineering
Clear filter
A storage limit that is actually a limit
Most per-site disk quotas in hosting panels are a number in a database that nothing enforces. We made ours a real filesystem the site cannot see past — here is what that took, and what it broke.
The delete that reported success and did nothing
A file manager is the most dangerous screen in a control panel. This is the bug that taught us that, plus what a browser-based file manager has to get right before anyone should trust it with a produc
Containers and VMs from one panel, without lying about the difference
LXD containers, QEMU virtual machines and Docker all live on the same Virtualization screen. They are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise is how people lose data. Here is how we present three
Analytics without a tracker: everything your access log already knows
Traffic, countries, devices, referrers, error rates and slow pages — all of it is sitting in a file nginx is already writing. No JavaScript, no third party, no consent banner. Here is how to get it
Soft 404s are quietly costing you search traffic
If every mistyped URL returns your home page with a 200, search engines will index all of them as real pages — and split your ranking across the duplicates.
Your sitemap might be lying to you
A static sitemap.xml wins over any dynamic route, and a generator that walks the filesystem cannot see content stored in a database.
Scheduled publishing that fires when nobody is watching
If your "publish at" check only runs when an admin loads the dashboard, then a post scheduled for 6 a.m. goes live whenever somebody happens to sign in.