juangacovas

Where exactly is your bottleneck right now? Database queries? I mean, where those >300ms go, foreach request or just some of them?

You can get cheaper domains, i.e. Porkbun.com is running a 3 per user $4.15 for .com (just looked, I'm happy with them)

Ummm, it as Sylex, not Slim, that got discontinued

I update CentOS boxes kernel using "ElRepo" and works out fine, for my use case (webservers, etc)

A pretty amount of tools still use Perl under the hood and I'm pretty sure some of the "granted, they just work" tools that we're used to be just there or install, use Perl in some way.

Two examples I can give in my case are the good old rsnapshot, and CSF firewall

Yeah, it could be the case and then I was wrong about it being discontinued

Probably you want to try out PCem when dosbox doesn't do the trick. Was a lot of fun for me! I made a small page about PCem here: https://juangacovas.info/doku.php/windows/howtos/pcemu-page

Friend of mine. Slim framework not updated anymore. Cannot make it work in recent php versions, so a fragment of a big corp needs to be maintained and isolated. I know, happens everywhere

Germany having top pharma factories for things like testing and other medical stuff seems a good reason

lsyncd: https://axkibe.github.io/lsyncd/

+1 and I'm sure the article could inspire others to do the same with other stacks. I like how it compares to other similar stack where OS is CentOS, serverside lang is just PHP and some other layers added, like HAProxy and/or Varnish cache, or even Apache or Lighttpd instead of the omnipresent Nginx for the webserver

I bought a HP stream with 128GB internal storage for 199 € and it's serving me well because of weight (1 kg) and purpose (writing, connect to remote servers via ssh). Being a Celeron you can't do fancy things but it's ok. You can extend the storage capacity with microSD cards.

In terms of PHP, the strange thing here is you didn't get any errors (at least in logs). The default behaviour in webhosts is having PHP "display_errors" to off (so "blank pages", 500), BUT error_log enabled to some file that is accessible to you.

If nothing is shown at error logs, then you should try setting "error_reporting" to E_ALL and you should see something at logs after executing your PHP code.

It's a matter of balance, always. A thin line. And dogmas that people on teams follow (we all do in some way).

Not invented here syndrome, always create a class, always put a class in its own file, premature optimization blablah, don't use goto, this and that is bad practice in that language, don't optimize until you need it (but you later don't have time to profile, or don't really want to...)

Curious about "minimal homes" there. Do they exist?

Have you tried the good, old "rsnapshot"? If you master passwordless ssh with rsync, it's a breeze to setup

And if sometime in the future Perl is no longer included by default, it will be installed "by dependency" just when you install packages like rsnapshot, CSF firewall, etc. and probably a big bunch of tools that nobody would guess are written in Perl (or some tools of the package)

You also get "mariabackup" which is a fork of perconabackup for consistent, physical backups of InnoDB and Aria/MyISAM

Then your code, for some people, is not enterprisey enough and of course not maintanable over time..

As a first-time developer promoted to manager 3 years ago, of a small team, IMO this is good advice and well written. I would add about trusting your team members and delegation, well, you get to learn what everyone can accomplish, identify weaknesses and couch when needed, but it's not instant magic. So not everything is always on track. Add that some of us have to manage and still deliver code (by choice or not) and you have the common sense and advice saying you can't do both, but need to keep up coaching, helping when things go wrong, etc.

So it's not just about following advice, real world hits just as in development estimations...

I like to use curly brace jump shortcut and interactively debug my code and other's code to avoid being too picky about this stuff, unless you have to stick to 80x24 kernel surface ;P

"the further down the stack you go" is the reason I love English (being Spanish)

+1 for the sync/conflicts resolution of Keepass. Also I think that putting a shared database (file) on a shared folder at the office if needed is an overlooked feature..

Not good hearing only "things" from biased people

Dokuwiki with some plugins for me

Slow? PHP 7? Or are you just saying this particular software?

Here in Mallorca island some call germans "cap quadrats" (being "square heads") for a reason. I'm sure they also call us names...

My case is the opposite, went from videogames to "boring" B2B web apps. I find myself applying techniques for performance and other stuff (almost everything) to another domains and it is fun, at least for more than 10 years now. And users DO see the difference from poorly written web apps. My two cents

What OS and distro do you use for a cheap 256 MB vps? Wondering and wishing to play hehe

Yep. But they're overused and underused each day... Everything can be a spreadsheet and nobody questions if there are better ways of holding that particular data