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Your Postgres Connection Limit Is Not Your Concurrency Limit
A database that accepts a hundred connections is not a database that does useful work on a hundred things at once. On a four-core box, throughput stopped scaling at four — and the fix was to stop counting connections and start counting cores.
Where to Find and Create Images for Your Website (Free Sources, Licenses, and When to Pay)
Good images make a page look finished — but the wrong image can cost you a takedown notice or a license bill. This is the practical order: find free ones, confirm you're actually allowed to use them, make your own when nothing fits, and know when paying is the cheaper option.
When a Multisite Subsite Vanishes: Reaching a Blog Whose Mapped Domain Is Parked
A subsite whose mapped domain is parked looks deleted from every angle — the front end shows a parking page, the REST API returns nothing, and no URL you guess resolves. It isn't gone. Here's why it hides, and the thirty-second fix.
How to Protect Email Addresses from Spam Bots in WordPress (the Modern, Accessible Way)
Publishing `you@example.com` in plain text is an open invitation to harvesting bots. The old fix — a `document.write` script — still works but breaks for screen readers and no-JavaScript visitors. Here's the current, accessible approach, starting with a function WordPress already ships.
Your Maintenance Page Returns 200, and Search Engines Are Indexing It
Maintenance mode hides your site from visitors. It does not, by default, tell search engines to come back later — and the difference is one checkbox most people never find.