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Austin Ginder
March 31, 2021
Development

Hover.com’s Internal API

I started out looking for a domain provider to replace Hover.com and ended up building on top of Hover’s undocumented and unsupported API. Here’s the how and why I got here. Last month I mentioned about wanting to build domain…

Austin Ginder
March 16, 2021
Development

Running Backups When Your Out Of Disk Space

I’m sure you never found yourself in a situation where you need to backup something when you don’t have the space to do it 🤣. Some context. For the past few years I’ve been running a cheap $5/month Digital Ocean…

Austin Ginder
February 9, 2021
Development

Fathom Lite with Caddy for HTTPS

I recently migrated my self-hosted Fathom Lite from Digital Ocean to a Google Cloud for better scalability and a bigger VPS. Fathom’s recommended solution for HTTPS is to put Fathom behind Nginx as explained here. While doing the server upgrades…

Austin Ginder
January 21, 2021
Development

Enhancements to Fathom Lite Analytics

I’ve been self-hosting a Fathom Analytics instance for basic web stats since early 2018. That’s even before Fathom reached v1.0. The open-source version of Fathom is now called Fathom Lite and the hosted version of Fathom has been completely rewritten…

Austin Ginder
December 29, 2020
Feature Updates

Official CaptainCore Documentation

Documentation for the CaptainCore project has been sparse and disorganized. To solve this I’m starting a new documentation website: docs.captaincore.io. This will be CaptainCore’s central documentation repository. It’s built using a platform that has nothing to do with WordPress. If…

Austin Ginder
December 15, 2020
Development

Tackling Subscriptions While Leveraging WooCommerce

There are many options for running a recurring-based business. In the WordPress ecosystem, using WooCommerce with WooCommerce Subscriptions is a very popular and versatile combination. It’s how I’ve been handling payments from customers at Anchor Hosting for the last 4…

Austin Ginder
December 1, 2020
Development

Tracking Background Commands In Realtime

CaptainCore runs commands like backup, update, quicksave and scan-errors across many WordPress sites on a scheduled basis in the background. Until now there hasn’t been any way to see any progress in the UI. That makes it really difficult to…

Austin Ginder
November 24, 2020
Thoughts

Moving Forward Slowly and Steadily

With the increased writing and focus on CaptainCore, I’ve been receiving lots of feedback, which is great! Many individuals have been asking me when CaptainCore be ready to use or if I have an estimated time for launching. I don’t…

Austin Ginder
November 17, 2020
Feature Updates

Request New Sites

This past week I built a new feature into CaptainCore which’s allows site owners and agencies to request new sites. This is basically a fancy looking form that gives folks the appearance that they are creating new WordPress sites. These…

Austin Ginder
November 10, 2020
Contributions

New WP-CLI Global Parameter Exec

If you closely examine CaptainCore, beyond the golang web server and Vue.js WordPress plugin, you’ll see it’s really just WP-CLI commands and bash scripts. WordPress’ WP-CLI project is one of the most powerful and important WordPress projects. Anything with WP-CLI…