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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Your database is probably not what's eating your RAM
Systems

Your database is probably not what's eating your RAM

A 1.7 GB MariaDB process looked like the obvious culprit. The real problem was a PHP script with no memory limit and a server with no swap.

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 →
The CLI php.ini is not the FPM php.ini
Field Notes

The CLI php.ini is not the FPM php.ini

An hour lost to a two-megabyte upload limit that did not exist, because the value came from the wrong SAPI.

Alien XP· 2 min Read more →
Scheduled publishing that fires when nobody is watching
Engineering

Scheduled publishing that fires when nobody is watching

If your "publish at" check only runs when an admin loads the dashboard, then a post scheduled for 6 a.m. goes live whenever somebody happens to sign in.

Alien XP· 2 min Read more →
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