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Deployment

Rollback Strategy When a Deploy Breaks the Site

Every deploy platform advertises instant rollback, and every one of them means something narrower than you think. Here is what Cloudflare Pages actually lets you roll back to, why the wrangler workflow has no rollback command at all, and the state that a rollback quietly leaves behind.

Sep 23, 2026
Deployment

Which Security Headers a Static Site Actually Needs

A static host has no server to configure, but it still sends response headers. Five worth setting, one that silently breaks monetisation, and a file limit that fails without telling you.

Sep 23, 2026
Tools

Self-Hosted Rank Tracking: Do You Need It, and Where It Breaks

A rank tracker is the SEO tool people buy earliest and need latest. SerpBear is free and unlimited because it only renders the dashboard — someone else supplies the data. Here is when tracking earns its keep, and the failure mode that quietly costs you months of history.

Sep 23, 2026
Tools

Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring: Who Watches the Watcher

The obvious problem with self-hosting an uptime monitor is that it shares infrastructure with the thing it watches. The expensive problem is quieter: a monitor nobody maintains produces confident, wrong silence. Here is what the tooling documents, what it doesn't, and the pattern that covers the gap.

Sep 23, 2026
Tools

What Belongs in a Sitemap, and the Two Fields Google Ignores Entirely

Sitemaps are the most consistently misunderstood artefact in SEO. They are for discovery, not ranking; Google ignores two of the three optional fields entirely; and the one field it does use has a documented condition attached. Here is what the specifications actually say.

Sep 23, 2026
Hosting

Staging Sites on Shared Hosting: What You Actually Get

Staging is advertised as a standard feature and is often a paid tier one, above the plan you were quoted. Here is what the control panel documentation says about cloning, whether the database is shared, whether staging is indexed — and why a staging site is not a load test.

Sep 23, 2026
Tools

Site Search Without a Backend: What You Ship vs What You Call

Static sites can have search, and the choice is not between tools but between two architectures: ship an index to the browser, or call someone else's service. Here are the documented options, the licences, and the trade-off nobody documents — what happens to a zero-JS site.

Sep 23, 2026
Hosting

A Three-Year Hosting Cost Calculator, With the Renewal Rates Included

Hosting is priced per year and bought in multi-year terms, which is how a three-dollar plan becomes a nine-dollar plan without anything changing. Here is the formula, the line items hosts don't advertise, and which components of the total are actually verifiable.

Sep 23, 2026
Hosting

Why Your Host's Unlimited Plan Has Limits, and Where They're Written Down

The word unlimited in a hosting plan usually sits on the same page as the numbers that contradict it. Here is where each real cap is documented, how the enforcement mechanism works, and the one limit that explains why you can't receive email while your disk is nearly empty.

Sep 23, 2026