Blog / platform engineering
Notes from the field.
Short, practical pieces on the decisions I get asked about most. No news, no trends, no AI takes.
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How to deprecate a PHP version on shared hosting
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.
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What hosting teams get wrong about hacked sites
Compromised customer sites are a platform problem, not a support problem. Here is how hosting teams should measure, prevent and price the cleanup work.
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Does Moving Off the Cloud Actually Save Money?
Cloud repatriation gets pitched as an easy win. Here is how I work out whether moving workloads onto your own servers saves a company anything real.
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What your support queue says about your platform
Support tickets are the cheapest telemetry a hosting or SaaS team owns, and most teams read them as a cost line instead of an engineering signal.
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