Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?

Testing our upcoming live-logging feature reveals the volume of probing requests. This is a simple phpinfo page, yet it being hammered by requests for WordPress vulnerabilities. We will need to extend WAF features.

Another developer did this in CakePHP? Oh. That's wrong. We need to redo this Laravel. We all have been there, tame your ego: anatoliybabushka.com/blog/when-to...

You are what you share. — Charles Leadbeater

You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea. — Medgar Evers

We need to roll out some security patches tomorrow for the old platform, for both the US and the EU region. Thanks for your understanding. status.fortrabbit.com

What we shipped in June. blog.fortrabbit.com/platform-upd...

Craft 6 Alpha 9 runs fine on our new platform. Uses Laravel preset now. We will extend the stack detector to understand Craft CMS 6 based on Laravel.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. — Scott Adams

We started MySQL 8.0 -> 8.4 migration today for US old platform, tomorrow we will continue with EU. status.fortrabbit.com

From Notion to Markdown. We now own our knowledge base data. Why. How Gotchas. blog.fortrabbit.com/moving-knowl...

This is our new contact preferences center. How we contact you. How you can stay in the loop. Hosting. But different. You are in control.

We have a custom build Cmd+K bar now. It's an action-oriented discovery to the most crucial CRUD operations you can do. Action Oriented #UX in the wild. blog.fortrabbit.com/action-orien...

Recently shipped: Beside email and GitHub, you can now signup/login with Google and GitLab as well. We don't have an automatic GitLab deploy pipeline yet, but it's on the radar.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain

The three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall

We have increased the number of PHP processes available with larger plans a bit. Tuning the new platform BETA. www.fortrabbit.com/pricing/deta...

Oh. ProcessWire looks fresh! processwire.com

Sequel Ace is ace. Recommending it to clients as the best free MySQL client ever since. docs.fortrabbit.com/integrations...

We need to roll out some security updates tomorrow morning for the old platform EU and US. Sorry for short notice. Only short downtime expected. status.fortrabbit.com/maintenance/...

Today, I had the honor to create the ticket number 6.000 @fortrabbit.com. That is only for the frontend team and only for the new platform. And yes, I am a crazy micro manager. Linear served us well so far, don't change too much please.

Constantly tweaking our :focus styles. #CSS #A11Y

#PHPverse is tomorrow, free, online: lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2026/

Our relation with AI is complicated. The tech is kinda amazing, circumstances not so. Take the poll: Interested in more AI features here? Yes/No www.fortrabbit.com#ai-ready

Refreshingly boring: Kiki, a tiny homepage construction kit. No Javascript, no dependencies, just a bit of PHP. tomotama.com/kiki

Our new team page listing current members, as well as our alumni. Nice and talented people. www.fortrabbit.com/us/team

PHP-fts: a full-text search engine written in pure PHP, no extensions. github.com/olivier-ls/p...

🇺🇸 Hello again! The United States data center location is now available on the new platform. blog.fortrabbit.com/us-data-cent...

Composer leaked GITHUB_TOKEN to GitHub Actions logs for ~14h last week. Damien Retzinger on the near-miss: github.com/graycoreio/g...

Have you seen Cadence? Define Laravel scheduled tasks as Eloquent models instead of cron strings. github.com/DirectoryTre...

Q: Website is not working. A: Domain has no DNS. Here is how to do. Q: I booked hosting with domain provider now. Please help upload website by FTP. A: We don't provide migration away services.

PHP's biggest problem isn't the language or the tooling. stitcher.io/blog/php-big...

MySQL 8.4 now available for the old platform. We plan to automatically update all remaining Apps in June. Much more details: blog.fortrabbit.com/mysql-8-4-up...

We shipped: Extended trial time, agent skills, website screenshots … Much more in the pipeline. blog.fortrabbit.com/platform-upd...

We are getting closer to launch our US data center region for the new platform. A key milestone towards final release. #php #hosting #different

Tiny detail: Our dashboard now shows favicons for domains.

So many new tools emerge. This is a #SelfHosted #PHP personal subscription tracker. wallosapp.com

Yes: "Web Scale !== Enterprise Scale … Write code > Deploy via FTP > You’re live.", but PHP also needs to attract young people. XenForo, WordPress, phpbb and MediaWiki are not very sexy. tadeubento.com/2025/why-php...

Kitty Giraudel on AI: You can't spell pain without it. kittygiraudel.com/2026/04/29/y...

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later! —Fred Brooks

We have a new AI disclosure with content published in docs, www and blog. It explains how far an article was co-authored by AI. Usually we use it to correct spelling (we are all non-native English speakers), certain articles might be co-edited.

Archive.org is so awesome. Our website anno 2013: web.archive.org/web/20130402...

Heads up #WHM and #cPanel users: CVE-2026-41940 is out there. fortrabbit is managed PHP hosting with a custom control panel.

We don't do 1-click installers. Local first. blog.fortrabbit.com/why-we-dont-...

Around 8 years ago we published Craft Copy. A PHP command line interface to help deploying Craft CMS apps to fortrabbit. Now we published a collection of Markdown files to cover most of it, but not only for Craft CMS. blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-...

We enforce rate limits on our SSH service. NEW: Get rate-limit details with `ssh -v` when a connection is not working.

Security patches for the old platform planned for next Tuesday: status.fortrabbit.com/maintenance/...

We have updated the status tool for the OLD platform. Cleaned up and migrated existing subscriptions. The new tool will no longer report to Slack, MS Teams, Twitter - just mail. status.fortrabbit.com

You are running on AWS, integrating GitHub? No thanks, we want 99.9% security and data sovereignty. Us against them as a spectator from the sidelines. - blog.fortrabbit.com/us-against-t...

How we've built fortrabbit agent skills. Markdown prose instead of code. blog.fortrabbit.com/introducing-...