Deep Dive: WordPress on Kubernetes – Stateless Pods, a Stateful CMS, and WP-CLI as the Control Plane
WordPress was never built for containers: it writes into its own directory, updates itself and keeps state…
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Deep Dive: PHP-FPM and OPcache – Workers, Limits, and a Bytecode Cache That Was Too Small
Every WordPress and Nextcloud request is a PHP worker. How many there are, how long they may…
Read MoreDeep Dive: Redis – Object Cache, File Locking, and Why a Password Behind the Firewall
What Redis does for WordPress and Nextcloud, why one instance runs without a password and the other…
Read MoreDeep Dive: MariaDB – InnoDB, Temporary Tables in RAM, and a Database That Ran Unconfined for Five Weeks
What InnoDB does with memory and disk, which settings matter for WordPress and Nextcloud on small servers,…
Read MoreDeep Dive: K3s – A Whole Kubernetes in One Binary, What It Takes Out, and Six Things It Did Not Do by Itself
What runs inside the single K3s binary, what this setup switches off or replaces, how a single-node…
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