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Fast Ring, Slow Ring – Adopting The Microsoft Release Process

January 29, 2021

Recently we’ve been asked about some of our new releases because they haven’t been pushed out via the automatic update mechanism. So we figured a quick article on our process might be in order. We have modelled our release process after the Microsoft Windows “rings” development model. They have what is effectively multiple “release rings”. The “Fast Ring” has the…

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Handle Your APPSUMO Deals With Easy Digital Downloads

January 1, 2021

So, you’ve decided to run an APPSUMO deal and now you need to implement their guidelines on how users should redeem their codes. Ideally, you’d like to do this with as little work as possible. If you’re using Easy Digital Downloads and the Software Licensing add-on for your store, you’re in luck. There’s now an easy way to implement the…

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When Your WordPress Management Dashboard Goes Down

November 3, 2020

So, you’ve discovered the amazing benefits of running your own WordPress server and now have a half a dozen or more of them on your favorite [WordPress] server management panel. But what do you do when it goes down? Whether you like it or not, all SaaS products have downtime and that includes most WordPress server management dashboards. Whether it’s…

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Fighting A Bad Upstream Package Update: Imagick

October 13, 2020

Over the weekend, many of our servers started to exhibit weird behavior. Commands and processes that were working just fine suddenly failed with little explanation. Upon deeper inspection we discovered that the maintainer of the Imagick PHP module had changed the package to be a “meta” package. Imagick is a module that WordPress relies on for image manipulation. And, a…

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A Dozen+ Ways To Fire Up Your Own WordPress Server

May 25, 2020

If you’ve been around the WordPress ecosystem for a while, you’ve probably toyed with the idea of running your own WordPress server(s). There are three reasons you might want to go down this road: Costs: Deploying your own WordPress server can generally be cheaper when you are running multiple WordPress sites. Security: Managing your own server removes at least one…

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Exposed API Keys: Handling A Nightmare Scenario

May 22, 2020

Recently we noticed a post on twitter about an exposed API key for Convertkit where the author of the tweet was unable to contact Convertkit to remove the exposed API key from their account. Which made us wonder – what would be a nightmare scenario for api keys for a Cloud Server provider? For example, are you prepared if one…

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What Are WordPress Management Dashboards?

April 20, 2020

A WordPress Management Dashboard does what its name suggests – it helps you manage WordPress sites and WordPress servers without needing to use the command line.

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Why We Built It

April 19, 2020

Given all the WordPress management panel options already out there, why did we embark on a major project to build yet another one?

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