Winter Database Clean-Up
Imagine you're running a restaurant. When you first start, you have a single fridge in the kitchen. As you grow and add more dishes to your menu, you
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Sharing my journey as an entrepreneurial web developer
Join me as I build magicpages.co, a managed Ghost CMS hosting provider. I share all the things I learn, what frustrates me, and what I celebrate.
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Can you copy-paste yourself to success?
A few days ago I scrolled Reddit. A post on the r/Ghost subreddit popped up – and a pretty common question was asked: what Ghost CMS hosting do people recommend?
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MRR goes brr
So, it happened. Magic Pages just hit the $1,000 MRR milestone! Or, for those of you who haven't been indoctrinated by the Twitter hustle culture: $1,000
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An Apple a day...
"Wow, you're getting rid of your last Apple device?" – that's what my wife asked me the other day, when I told her about my
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Move Slow and Don't F****** Break Things
I have worked in start-ups in Berlin for nearly 6 years. One sentence I heard too many times was "Move fast and break things". Ughhh. I have really
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Going full circle
Remember the good old days? When you wouldn't just buy an off-the-shelf MacBook, but carefully assembled your computer hardware? Waiting for all the components to arrive, to then
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When Plans Pan Out
Back in March and April, there were some severe outages on Magic Pages. Some led to a downtime of 2-3 hours. That was everything but good. Maybe you remember, I
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I Decided Against the Easy Route for My Business
A few days ago, I made a decision that will have a lasting impact on – at least – the next five years of my business. It's a decision that
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Life, the Universe and Everything
No, this will not be a book review. To be fair, I haven't even read (=listened to the audiobook) Douglas Adams's third book in the "
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I accidentally created the fastest Ghost CMS hosting
…but can I replicate that on scale? (Spoiler: probably not – but it's been a fun experiment 😉) Lately, I have been working a lot on the Magic Pages infrastructure.
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The art of verschlimmbessern
Back in April, I started implementing BunnyCDN in Magic Pages. It took me over a month to jump through many different hoops and the development was quite nerve wracking. BunnyCDN
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My secret SaaS gold mine
One and a half years ago, I would have never believed that I would be running a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. In fact, I was quite annoyed with all the hype
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Insights of an Entrepreneurial Web Developer