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Notes from the field.

Short, practical pieces on the decisions I get asked about most. No news, no trends, no AI takes.

Most hosting platforms stall on retiring old PHP branches. Here is the sequence I use: count real usage, close the taps, and expire every exception.

Lessons from years of running large cPanel fleets: staged updates, noisy neighbours, backup windows, and alerts worth waking up for.

Thirty minutes, no charge, no pitch.