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My Laravel App Sleeps Most of the Time Now

Laravel Cloud accidentally gave my blog the economics of a static site without making me stop using Laravel. The app renders pages when it needs to, Cloudflare serves the cached result, and compute spends most of its life asleep.

• Laravel
• Laravel Cloud
• Cloudflare
• CDN

I Give Every Coding Task Its Own Disposable Workspace

I stopped switching branches and started creating disposable development environments instead — one isolated workspace for every feature, experiment, or coding agent.

• AI
• Git
• Workflow
• Developer Tools

WordPress Is in an Alarming State

WordPress is in an alarming state, Matt and Automattic are harming the project, its community, and open-source as a whole.

• WordPress

LVM: The Powerful Tool for Managing Storage on Linux Systems ↗

This article covers the architecture of the Logical Volume Manager and how to use it

Written for and published on Contabo

Avoiding Data Loss: Backup Strategies ↗

What's the 3-2-1 backup rule? What even is a differential backup? This article covers it all.

Written for and published on Contabo

Setting Up WordPress with Cloud Init ↗

Guide on how to provision a new server with WordPress already set up using Cloud-Init

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Create a WordPress Plugin from Scratch - Full Beginners Guide

The full guide for creating custom WordPress plugins with PHP

• WordPress
• PHP

Block Storage vs Object Storage vs File Storage: A Buyer's Guide ↗

What's the difference between Block Storage, Object Storage, and File Storage? This article covers the differences and when to choose which one.

Written for and published on Contabo

Changing the Partition Layout of Your VPS after OS Installation ↗

Guide on VPS partitions: What they are, why they are useful, and how to manage them on both Linux and Windows.

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NeoVim Setup for PHP and NodeJS Development

How I sped up my development with NeoVim for WordPress, React, SvelteKit, and more

• Neovim
• PHP
• NodeJS

The Ultimate Guide to Docker installation and deployment using Cloud-Init ↗

Server pre-configured with Docker and your container already running? This article covers how to do it with Cloud-Init.

Written for and published on Contabo

Get LAMP Stack Up and Running on Your Server in Less than 90 Seconds using Cloud-Init ↗

Don't waste time on setting up LAMP stack manually, let Cloud-Init handle it for you.

Written for and published on Contabo

What is Cloud-Init and Why is it so Cool? ↗

A technical guide explaining how Cloud-Init can automate server setup and reproduce system configuration across new instances.

Written for and published on Contabo

Use Contabo Object Storage with NodeJS

A simple guide to interacting with Contabo Object Storage from JavaScript using the AWS S3 SDK

• Contabo
• JavaScript

Deploy a SvelteKit-App to DigitalOcean

A quick guide on how to deploy your SvelteKit-App to the DigitalOcean App Platform

• SvelteKit
• DigitalOcean

Live-Chat with SvelteKit and SocketIO

Add Socket.IO to your SvelteKit project and use the full power of realtime communication

• SvelteKit
• Socket.IO

SQL: The basics and beyond

The structured query language - from beginner to expert

• SQL

SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS v3

A simple guide to add Tailwind CSS v3 to your SvelteKit project

• SvelteKit
• Tailwind CSS

How to build your own CLI tool with NodeJS

We use the command line every day - but do you know how you can create your own commands?

• Node.js
• CLI

How to nest groups in TailwindCSS

A simple plugin to enable nested groups in your TailwindCSS project

• Tailwind CSS
• CSS