Practical notes on hosting, migrations, and the problems that show up when a website changes servers.
Search engines and AI answer tools need the same basics: crawlable URLs, structured data, clear identity, and topical links. Here are five high-impact fixes for any website.
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Two critical PHP flaws were disclosed today. Any PHP site—including every WordPress site—should be treated as at risk until PHP is updated. Here is what to do now.
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Adobe's September ColdFusion updates fixed six critical vulnerabilities, and since then admins have reported servers that will not start, failing XML imports and missing packages. Here is what changed, what has broken, and how to fix it.
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Reconnecting the AWS MCP connector every time we switched AWS accounts got old fast. Running the AWS MCP Server locally in Claude Desktop with several CLI profiles fixed it. Here is the full setup.
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Half of ColdFusion Administrator started returning a generic error on a new Linux server, and the cause was a disk option we had chosen on purpose: case-insensitive file names.
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Moving 14 GB and 42,000 files off an aging Windows server did not need a VPN, an open firewall port, or a new product. It needed a private S3 bucket and two small jobs.
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Post-quantum certificates have to stay small enough for a TLS handshake. Cloudflare is targeting the first production Merkle Tree Certificates for early 2027. Here's what that changes, and what to do now.
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Three bytes you cannot see in an editor, in cat, or in a diff quietly corrupted every JSON response on a production WordPress Multisite. Here is how we found them, and how to keep them from shipping again.
