What we learned moving sites off old platforms, reducing running costs and wiring automation into real work — including the parts that did not go to plan.
Copy your live site onto a Raspberry Pi and test on that instead. No migration plugins, nothing uploaded to anyone else's website, and every command shown here has been run.
25 minute read
We measured Wordfence 9.0.0 on a Raspberry Pi 5. On our test site, a registered install reduced homepage throughput by 23%; an unregistered install fetched no rules; and a directory-scoped Apache rule stopped an uploaded webshell from executing.
18 minute read
You bought a firewall plugin, a malware scanner and an uptime monitor. Yet nobody can list which of your systems are reachable from the internet.
7 minute read
Quotes for an unsupported Drupal site can differ sharply because extended support, a Drupal rebuild and a move to another platform are different jobs.
7 minute read
Four internal registries agreed. Twelve published pages still used a value Keystatic rejected.
5 minute read
Redirects added after launch fix future requests, not the dead ends visitors and crawlers already reached.
7 minute read
