An Expired Certificate Breaks the Site Completely
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday when my phone started screaming, and I didn’t even need to look at the screen to know it was bad. I could almost feel the phantom heat of my old server room as …
Old Tls Versions Are Compatibility You Do Not Want
I was woken up at 3:00 AM last Tuesday by a frantic client whose e-commerce store had effectively vanished from the internet. There was no server crash, no hack, and no massive spike in traffic; the site was just gone …
Three Settings Control One Limit
I was sitting in my home office at 2:00 AM, staring at a terminal window that refused to cooperate, when I realized how much time we waste overthinking simple failures. A client had just called, sounding frantic because their site …
A Budget Turns Performance Into a Build Failure
I remember sitting in my home office at 3:00 AM, staring at a server log that looked like a crime scene, wondering why a client’s site had suddenly crawled to a halt. It wasn’t a sophisticated DDoS attack or some …
Registering a Trademarked Name Is a Loss Waiting to Happen
I remember sitting in a cramped office three years ago, staring at a client’s dashboard while they paced the floor. They had just spent eighteen months building a decent brand, only to get a cease-and-desist letter that effectively wiped their …
Disable the Protocols Nobody Should Still Be Using
I was halfway through a long-distance ride last Tuesday when my phone started buzzing incessantly in my jersey pocket. It wasn’t a social notification; it was a client whose site had gone dark because of a botched renewal. Looking through …
Newer Php Is Faster and Some Plugins Have Not Noticed
I still have a page in my notebook dedicated to a 3:00 AM outage from three years ago that could have been avoided with a single click. A client’s site went completely dark—not because of a hack or a massive …
For Most Sites the Free Certificate Is Identical in Practice
I still have a page in my notebook from three years ago about a client who lost a massive amount of traffic because their “free” SSL expired without anyone noticing. They thought they were being smart by saving a few …
Test on Slow Connections or Ship for People Who Never Have Them
I remember sitting in my old server room at 3:00 AM, staring at a dashboard that showed everything was “green” while our users were screaming that the site was dead. We had run every performance test imaginable on our local …
Trademarks Beat Registration Dates in Arbitration
I remember sitting in my old office, staring at a screen at 2:00 AM, watching a client’s entire digital presence vanish because someone decided to play games with their URL. People love to treat udrp and domain disputes like some …