Sep 19, 2026 | Client work, Networking, Reliability
Five WordPress sites on one shared server started returning 502s. They stayed down for about twenty hours. Nothing had been deployed, nothing had been upgraded, and the server was up the whole time. What happened The server runs each site’s PHP in containers...
Sep 17, 2026 | Networking
Across three physical sites there were flat allow rules letting every personal device reach every piece of infrastructure. One of them had 6.3 million hits against it. Another, at a different site, had 1.9 million. They were there because at some point somebody needed...
Sep 17, 2026 | Infrastructure, Networking
Two remote sites each needed to run a handful of workloads locally: a tunnel connector, a file share, a sync client, a load balancer. Previously each ran a small collection of hand-built virtual machines and containers, all configured individually, all drifting. Each...
May 4, 2026 | Infrastructure, Networking
Most networks are utilities. A few are tools. The difference is whether you can feel the friction every time information passes through. You spend eight hours a day inside your network. More, if you work with cloud services, remote collaborators, streaming media, or...