Notes from people who run servers
Practical answers to the questions that land in our ticket queue: hacked sites, slow WordPress, renewal shocks, migrations. Written by the engineers, not a content farm.
PostgreSQL on shared hosting: who actually needs it
Nearly every shared hosting plan on the market offers MySQL or MariaDB and nothing else. The result is circular: frameworks default to MySQL because that is what shared hosting has, and shared hosting offers MySQL because that is what frameworks default to. If your stack wants Postgres, you are usually pushed straight to a VPS. Sometimes that push is correct. Often it is not. When you genuinely need PostgreSQL Your framework’s ecosystem assumes it. Django and Rails both run on MySQL, but the
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