CaptainCore is now connected to over 1700 WordPress sites. Not bad considering it’s not yet publicly available. Have I ever mentioned building products is hard? 🤣 Every WordPress site is backed up daily to a Restic backup repository stored in…
Quicksaves are my go to when troubleshooting WordPress issues. Arguably one of the most useful feature of CaptainCore, if you ask me :). They track themes and plugins with a visual breakdown of what changed and when. A huge time…
CaptainCore is just a collection of bash scripts tied together using a cli called Bash CLI. Bash has it’s limits. I’ve been thinking about replacing the underlying Bash CLI with a more robust solution. In terms of creating CLIs there…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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