Strategy RPO vs. RTO: Understanding disaster recovery Posted by Corey Brown “Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” We’re all pretty good at taking care of the second part of the idiom, but when it comes to an organization’s… Read more
Dev How WordPress and Altis handle scheduled tasks Posted by Ryan McCue Altis runs WordPress at scale for high-traffic and enterprise clients around the world. Our customers run lots of scheduled and one-off tasks, and we’ve fixed wp-cron to work at scale… Read more
Dev How we stopped a large-scale DDoS attack Posted by Wisdom Hambolu As a cloud hosting provider for high-traffic sites, security and availability are among our highest priorities. The biggest threat to both comes from malicious traffic, usually DDoS attacks. These attacks… Read more
News PHP 7.4 security support is ending; here’s what that means for Altis Posted by Vesela Lalova PHP forms the foundation of both WordPress and Altis. While we offer support for our users wherever possible, once support for a version of PHP reaches end-of-life, we are no… Read more
WordPress Economies of scale: why WordPress is ideal for enterprise dev teams Posted by Gianna Legate It’s no secret that business moves fast, and development must keep pace. From MVPs to continuous improvement, Altis CEO Noel Tock and Director of Product Ryan McCue discuss why WordPress… Read more
WordPress Finding and solving a race condition in WordPress: a tale of two threads Posted by Konstantin Kovshenin What do you do when something does nothing? This was the scenario I faced recently while working on a support ticket. Race conditions are among the hardest bugs to detect.… Read more
WordPress Mind the gap: the big players use WordPress, but why don’t we hear about it? Posted by Gianna Legate WordPress came to prominence as a blog-publishing system in the early 2000s, but it’s come a long way since then. Altis CEO Noel Tock and Director of Product Ryan McCue… Read more
WordPress The hidden programming language inside WordPress Posted by Ryan McCue Edit: This post has been updated! If you’ve read Part 1 already, skip ahead here to the riveting conclusion… WordPress had humble beginnings in the b2 blogging software, but has… Read more
