How serverless fixes a core WordPress security flaw
I had a client come to me, completely at their wit’s end. Their site had been hacked for the third time in a month. They’d…
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Running Bedrock on Pantheon with a CI build step
A client was told Bedrock was impossible on Pantheon. It is not. The fix is a CI build step that runs Composer and pushes the built code to Pantheon, so the main repo stays clean.
What’s the Real AWS Lambda Hosting Cost? It’s Complicated.
I got a call from a new client a while back. They had a small, but important, WordPress blog that another dev had put on…
Stop Fearing Serverless: Your Big PHP Site Can Handle It
I was on a call last week with a client running a pretty big WooCommerce store. They’re getting ready for a huge Black Friday sale…
How serverless handles WooCommerce traffic spikes
A flash sale took a client’s WooCommerce store down in three minutes. WooCommerce can’t cache cart pages, so one server buckles under a spike. Serverless scales PHP workers up and down on demand instead.