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Things we find out building real systems, written for people who have to choose one. No theory: problems we hit, and how they got solved.

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php2shell: how we secured our servers

On 21 October two critical flaws in the PHP core went public. The fix for our servers landed late that evening, carrying the same version number as before. What we did while we waited, and how we checked.

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Cloudflare in front of everything

All our sites go through Cloudflare, and our servers take web traffic from nobody else. How we use it, the cache rule that got us into trouble, and why one domain moved to the Pro plan.

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A regatta is a management system

For years we have built the entry platform and digital race office for the Tre Golfi Sailing Week and C.R.V. Italia. What goes on behind a regatta, from the entry form to the crew app.

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From SEO to GEO: getting found by AI assistants too

More and more searches go through ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity, and they cite only a handful of sources. What we changed on our own site to be one of them.

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Writing to be cited: how we structure pages and articles

AI assistants cite pages that answer straight away, with clear facts and a source. The rules we follow when we write for ourselves and for clients.

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A WordPress attack, and what we learned

One night in July, four administrators nobody had created appeared on a WordPress site on one of our servers. How we dealt with it, and why we checked the whole server.

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The backups that said "OK"

For three months the hourly backups on one of our servers failed 7,162 times while the log kept saying OK. What broke, how we rebuilt it, and the check we now never skip.

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The scanner that runs at night

We wrote our own security scanner for our servers. At midnight it runs 67 checks, emails a report and, if it finds something critical, acts without waiting for morning.

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Dry run before touching the money

Operations that write to invoices, stock or accounts never run blind. The rule is simple and has saved more projects than any technical choice.

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Who owns the code

A question almost nobody asks before signing, and the only one that matters three years later. What to look for in a software development contract.

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Printing inside the shop from a server somewhere else

The wall every web app hits when it has to talk to hardware on site. The answer is not a VPN, and it is far simpler than it looks.

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Own CRM or subscription: the price is the wrong question

The comparison is almost always made on the monthly fee, which is the quickest way to get it wrong. The three items that actually decide it only become visible after year three.

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