Vim has been the editor of choice for our team since day one and has remained our loyal companion in writing code to day, be it for CakePHP, WordPress, Django or Golang projects. Working on the code using Vim feels like using the highest quality hand tools instead of the common, noisy electrical power tools. In our opinion, there’s little need to have a lot of bells and whistles but miss instead the main point of reducing distraction and noise around the coding work.
[...]Wordpress
Self-hosted WordPress or Drupal that's fast, secure, scalable, compliant and private.
Review Signal has become over the years the reference in finding unbiased figures of the hosting providers for decision-makers and developers in the vast WordPress - WooCommerce world. Response times for cached - static and PHP - dynamic requests, uptime, SSL certificate grading stay as solid proofs for prospective customers when navigating hosting services and making a decision based on hard evidence, not on affiliate-driven blog posts. Furthermore, the evolution of these specific numbers for a certain provider show the amount of care and interest the they are investing to improve their service quality.
[...]WooCommerce has a slightly different approach in writing log messages than WordPress. It’s either writing them in the DB, which is completely unrecommended for a production website, since it slows down the entire site, either writing in a file on the disk, but in a separate place than the default WordPress debug.log in the wp-content folder. The alternative provided as a nice sample by the WooCommerce documentation is an Email Handler.
[...]Release 1.8 comes with a change in ownership for the Bitpoke App. We started it a while ago as an experiment in Presslabs and named it Dashboard. In July 2021 we took a different path while continuing to believe in the vision of democratizing WordPress hosting and bringing closer the next episode after the managed era. We’re taking the time here to thank the fine people from Presslabs we worked with on this project. Also, kudos to Mihai and Andi.
[...]We’re pleased to announce that the Bitpoke App 1.7 is freshly published and ready to be used or upgraded, check it out on the Google Marketplace.
[...]Bitpoke App version 1.6
It’s been almost a year since we’ve launched the first version of the Bitpoke App. We’ve had a very productive year in terms of new functionalities added to the core, and for sure, we have many other projects and features in the pipeline.
[...]Bitpoke App release 1.5
The Bitpoke App is designed to be a true auto-scaling and self-healing solution that can quickly scale and serve flawless WordPress publishing sites, learning platforms, and e-commerce shops.
[...]Bitpoke App for WordPress
In the last couple of months, here at Bitpoke, we have made significant progress to provide an even more reliable, cost-effective, and faster self-hosting solution for WordPress sites.
[...]App releases
We are very excited to announce the release of the 1.3 version, which is the latest version of the Bitpoke App and, by far, comes with the most significant changes both in terms of front-end and back-end functionalities.
[...]One of the most important values for us at Bitpoke was to provide a service that we’re extremely proud of. Fast sites means happy clients, but what do you do when you feel like there’s always room for improvement? You innovate.
[...]I was a speaker at KubeCon 2019, alongside Sachin Manpathak, technical lead at Platform9. I held a presentation about our Kubernetes MySQL Operator, as well as the reasons that led to our decision to create our own operator.
[...]I generally think of retrospection as a healthy exercise; however hurtful it might be for us to deter from the daily, always-on-the-move activities or new initiatives calling for our attention, an analysis is necessary. Thus, we took a short break from the development of the 4th version of our infrastructure to reflect on what we’ve seen on the horizon of WordPress hosting in 2018.
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