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The most important thing in the hosting business is making sure the sites you host are always up. From the beginning, it was very important to us to have an independent uptime monitoring system we can rely on. We’ve been using Pingdom for 5 years now. What we managed to cope in time was the […]

Today we are happy to announce another open source project we have been working on, this time a tool that ensures the security of our customer’s data. We wanted to offer an extra safety step and minimize the risk of loss in the form of dependable off-site backups. This is a key component used in […]

Silver is a standalone Django app for automatic billing, that we designed to manage our billing needs. Manu has been the project lead, and after 8 months spent developing this project with Bogdan, and 9 months of it being active in our system, we are now happy to share it with the world. This makes […]

There is a lot of web code out there. There are a lot of developers with different styles and skills. Everyone tries to write decent code, but sometimes negligence can win them over. Today, the need and importance of quality code are well understood, and every developer tries to improve their code, which is why they […]

After publishing gitfs, the git-powered file system, the project has gained a lot of traction. What started as a relatively small project that was needed internally has gathered 684 stars on GitHub and counting. Every now and then people ask us about what they can do with gitfs, and how they would like to use […]

Git has been a developer’s go-to tool ever since it started to gain popularity a few years back. Still, not everyone who gets to play a bit with code will want to go through the whole process of learning its quirks. This is where gitfs, the open-source tool we’ve open sourced, comes into play. Gitfs […]

We are happy to release version 0.5, still in beta, but packed with useful new features. At a glance, ignoring is now a straightforward process and we have a contextual help, the list of the latest commits. As our early adopters suggested, we have introduced detection for an existing git repo. Feel free to go […]

When having to choose from a wide range of products, a simple consumer might wander off into the realm of reviews to get a better sense of what he’s getting with each choice he can make. These reviews will mostly talk about the functionality, the design, about the little niceties, and they will definitely give […]

Here at Presslabs we value open source projects, as our entire stack is built using open source projects exclusively, and, of course, we only host sites running WordPress, the leading open source blogging and content management platform. Our commitment to innovate for publishers goes beyond helping customers, with the release of plugins meant to improve […]

We’ve faced the necessity of exporting Vanilla Forums comments to WordPress. Since we haven’t found an implementation to suit our needs, we’ve created our own custom approach that we’ve uploaded to GitHub. There are a couple of steps to perform prior to the export. The first one, of course, it to have your WordPress install […]