Your database is probably not what's eating your RAMPHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound themSizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPSSwap is not optional on a small serverSoft 404s are quietly costing you search trafficYour sitemap might be lying to you10 essays · 5 sectionsYour database is probably not what's eating your RAMPHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound themSizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPSSwap is not optional on a small serverSoft 404s are quietly costing you search trafficYour sitemap might be lying to you10 essays · 5 sections
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PHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound them
Performance

PHP-FPM workers never shrink. Here is how to bound them

A worker measured 30 MB when fresh and 97 MB forty hours later, on an idle server. Nothing was leaking — that is simply how PHP returns memory.

Alien XP· 3 min Read more →
Soft 404s are quietly costing you search traffic
Engineering

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.

Alien XP· 2 min Read more →
Your sitemap might be lying to you
Engineering

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.

Alien XP· 2 min Read more →
Real analytics from nginx logs, with no logging stack
Craft

Real analytics from nginx logs, with no logging stack

Page views, top pages and per-site traffic, from the file already on your disk — no JavaScript, no third party, no Elasticsearch.

Alien XP· 2 min Read more →
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