PBS Tidbit 16 — How Podfeet.com Works

About this episode

Bart explains the evolution of Podfeet.com and the technologies behind it.

Bart continues his unofficial series where he listens for where I say, "I wish I understood..." This time, he explains the history of how Podfeet.com has evolved over the last 20 years. We started with a shared server, then a virtual machine, to a dedicated server, and to a separate database server. He explains how the LAMP Stack works (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) and all the work Apache had to do. Then he explains how, when I moved Podfeet.com to NGINX + PHP-FPM, things got much more efficient. He even takes us through how Cloudflare protects my site and provides caching to speed up access to Podfeet.com to the benefit of all. You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net . Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: PBS_2026_01_09 Join our Slack at podfeet.com/slack and look for the #pbs channel, and check out our pbs-student GitHub Organization . It's by invitation only but all you have to do is ask Allison! Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation Apple Pay or Credit Card one-time donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bart Busschots, Allison Sheridan

Topics covered

• Podfeet.com history
• LAMP Stack
• NGINX
• website efficiency
• Cloudflare
• server evolution

Keywords

• Podfeet.com
• LAMP Stack
• NGINX
• Cloudflare
• website hosting
• Apache
• PHP-FPM
• MySQL

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Podfeet.com, Cloudflare, NGINX, PHP-FPM, LAMP Stack, Apache, MySQL, PBS, Patreon, PayPal

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