Serverless vs. Traditional Hosting: What’s the Difference?
A client called me in a panic. Their WooCommerce site, which they’d spent a fortune hosting on a “premium” managed server, had just crumbled under…
Tag: AWS Lambda
Stop Writing Messy WP-CLI Commands: A Better Way
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….
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…
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…
Laravel Vapor Logs: Getting Papertrail to Actually Work
I had a client running a pretty slick setup on Laravel Vapor. But they had this ghost in the machine—an error that would pop up…
Why Serverless is the Best WooCommerce Hosting Solution
I got a call from a client in a full-blown panic. They’d just launched a flash sale—one they’d spent a month promoting—and their site went…
Building a Real CloudFront Image Optimization CDN
I got a call last month from a client running a fairly successful WooCommerce store. Everything was custom, looked great on paper, but their Google…
Scaling PHP: Ditching Servers for Serverless Simplicity
I had a client, a mid-sized e-commerce operation, who was constantly battling performance issues with their custom data feeds and background processing. We’re talking about…