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Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.

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Christopher Pitt guides you can host daemon apps, for example Next apps, on Forge

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On the Fortrabbit blog Frank Lämmer shares which steps his company has taken to be GDPR compliant.

Comply by the end of May. The General Data Protection Regulation is coming. This post reflects when, why, what and what not is changing for our clients.

https://blog.fortrabbit.com/fortrabbit-is-gdpr-ready

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Andrew Welch of the New York based agency nystudio107 wrote a good overview of the options agencies & freelancers have regarding hosting.

Web hosting is something that many agencies and freelancers don’t give a whole lot of thought to. They just use whomever they’ve had a long-standing relationship with, and call it a day.

However, choosing the right host—and the right type of host—can be crucial to the success of a project. And the hosting world has changed a whole lot in the past few years, so let’s dive in.

https://nystudio107.com/blog/web-hosting-for-agencies-freelancers

At my company Spatie we're pretty happy with our choice to hosts our client projects on VPSes. We provision them using Laravel Forge and some custom ansible scripts.

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On his blog Simone Carletti gives a good overview of everything Let's Encrypt has to offer (and he also touches on what the service doesn't offer)

Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority that entered the internet scene at the end of 2015. ... However, Let’s Encrypt is not only free. Quoting the homepage: Let’s Encrypt is free, automated, and open.

But what does it mean? In this article I’ll share some of the direct consequences of that quote to help you better understand how Let’s Encrypt (currently) works. My goal here is not to judge or advertise the service offered by Let’s Encrypt (either in a negative or positive way), rather provide an overview of what you should expect if you use this service, and let you decide whether Let’s Encrypt is a good fit for you or not.

https://simonecarletti.com/blog/2016/02/things-about-letsencrypt/

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Over at the Fortrabbit-blog grown up graffiti kid Frank Lämmer provides an excellent overview of what your options are when looking for PHP-Hosting.

Let’s face it: web hosting is a market for lemons. There are so many providers. New categories are emerging. Borders blur. Microservices everywhere. It’s complex. It’s noisy. It’s hard.

I used to work with providers that offered sharing hosting that could be administered with tools like Plesk and cPanel. The biggest drawbacks of shared hosting are that these environments don't get updated regularly and you can't really install all the tools you need. We've also had serious troubles with performance in some cases (presumably caused by other users on the same machine).

Thanks to all the excellent resources on server management (like serversforhackers.com and sysadmincasts.com) and tools to provision them (like Forge) I feel confident enough to administer my own boxes. A little over a year ago all new projects at Spatie are hosted on DigitalOcean. We have multiple droplets running and haven't run into any of the problems we faced with the old school hosting providers.

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GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.

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Nginx Server Configs is a collection of configuration snippets that can help your server improve the web site's performance and security, while also ensuring that resources are served with the correct content-type and are accessible, if needed, even cross-domain.

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October saw the company add 26.000 new active users, a continuation of the average 20,000 new users coming on board each month.

I didn't know these guys were so big.

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