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Many sites still required php 7.4 even though it’s older and now considered deprecated. That being said, it’s still important to test with newer versions of PHP. Combined with PHP having a quicker release cycle PHP 8, 8.1, and 8.2 are on their way. I have to work with a couple of versions regularly in…
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Previously I had written about how to setup MAMP4 and get it working with Laravel, Since then MAMP 5 has come out and while not much is different I thought that I would go over some of the configuration changes needed to your environment up and running. Install MAMP 5: Download Set up your document…
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I have an updated post on Super simple local wildcard SSL that will allow you to greatly simplify the certificate creation steps. Local SSL has always been something that I ignored. So I never gave it the time of day. That is until Google did the unthinkable. They bought the .dev TLD. And not only…
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Previously I wrote about Effective caching with WordPress and how I ended up improving the site speed by nearly 400%. I wanted to talk more about how you should never blindly trust that a caching solution will help make your site faster. The basic concept of caching is to save the server time by keeping…
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Effective caching with WordPress is not always a straightforward as it should be. WordPress has had the same architecture for many years, but it’s a large undertaking to revamp it. It means losing compatibility with hundreds of thousands of plugins and themes. Because of this WordPress runs a bit slower and needs some finer attention…
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As I have moved over to a VPS server in the past 6 months I have run up against the paranoia of “is my server still running?” I had been using pingdom.com, a great service that pings a site every couple of minutes and notifies you of an outage. This was great when I was on a…
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Building a VPS is a lot like planning the foundation to your home, you need to have everything done correctly before you can start building up. I chose a base install of Ubuntu Server 12.10, and knew that I needed at a minimum a LAMP server. But there are a number of other tools that are needed…
Adam Patterson
