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We migrated a WordPress site in seven minutes. Then I interviewed the two AIs who did it.
Every Woop! Host site comes with a Resident Engineer — an AI agent residing on the server itself, with a shell and a library of WordPress skills. Today two of them moved a site between two of my servers. I mostly answered multiple-choice questions. Afterwards, I sat them both down for a debrief. Migrations are…
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A deep dive into building a secure, fast, easy to manage WordPress hosting stack
WordPress is easy to install. But to make it run smoothly, it needs a production-ready WordPress hosting stack around it. A good stack does several jobs at once: It serve pages quickly. It keeps WordPress, plugins, PHP, MariaDB, and the operating system updated. It blocks common attacks without breaking legitimate admin work. It gives customers…
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Everything a CEO Needs to Know About Securing Their IT Systems (But Probably Doesn’t)
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