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I’m an open-source enthusiast and web hosting specialist who builds on raw Ubuntu servers and NGINX, with nothing in the stack I didn’t put there myself. I’ve helped Fortune-listed companies deploy their platforms/applications and still work with several of them. I assess new tools, technologies tune stacks until they run lean, and write up what works here.
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A practical guide to running a Laravel app on cPanel: where to put the code, how to point the document root at public, set up .env, cron and queues, and fix the usual errors.
A step-by-step guide to the cPanel Setup Node.js App and Setup Python App tools on CloudLinux: create an app, install packages, set variables, restart it and read the errors.
Find out why WordPress is slow on cPanel hosting. Five checks in cPanel and WordPress, from Resource Usage to plugins and database, with a fix for each.
Make a slow WordPress site faster on cPanel shared hosting without installing a speed plugin, using PHP settings, .htaccess, wp-config.php and cleanup.
Fix the 508 Resource Limit Is Reached error on cPanel hosting. Read Resource Usage, find what is using your limits and apply the right fix.
Five easy cPanel steps to make a slow WordPress site faster on shared hosting: PHP version, LiteSpeed Cache, image size and unused plugins.
How to block .env and .git scanner probes on Nginx, with real log numbers, a correct check for leaks, and what Cloudflare changes in your logs.
A server-side diagnosis for a slow WordPress site: split the delay into web server, PHP, database and page weight, with real timings from a 1 GB Nginx server.
How to add a FastCGI page cache to a small WordPress blog on Nginx, with bypass rules, an X-Cache header, real timings and a safe rollback.
