Free certificates went GA this month. Automating issuance and renewal, the rate limits that catch staging first, and the monitoring that has to outlive the automation.
Pointing monit at a process that keeps dying makes the symptom disappear, and that is precisely the risk: the service comes back within thirty seconds, the graph looks…
Two days lost to PHP extension mismatches. A container per service, what the shared-folder performance problem costs on a VM, and whether it was worth it.