Fun Stuff

2016-08-03

Fun Stuff

Goodbye Wordpress

Why blesta.com left WordPress for Hugo: faster static-generated pages, Markdown posts, and a smaller attack surface than a PHP and MySQL CMS.

Paul3 min read

2014-03-31

Fun Stuff

Parallel Payment Optimizer (video & free plugin)

Parallel Payment Optimizer is an April Fools free Blesta plugin promising cloud helper bots that nudge nonpaying customers to log in and pay. Watch the video and play along.

Paul1 min read

2013-01-17

Fun Stuff

Cake or Pie? (video)

BlestaLabs runs the Blesta v3 alpha on a Raspberry Pi with Debian, Apache, PHP 5.4 and MySQL, proving the next-gen app runs even on tiny ARM hardware.

Paul2 min read

2012-09-14

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Friday Ramblings

A building power outage killed a Linux box and exposed corrupt R1Soft backups, recovered via shell tricks, with Blesta v3 alpha now rapidly approaching.

Paul3 min read

2010-12-28

Fun Stuff

Liquid Web Hero

Liquid Web sent their sought-after Hero action figure to Blesta HQ, and we documented his stay with a lighthearted photo shoot around the office.

Paul1 min read

2010-11-05

Fun Stuff

Vending Machine Humor

A look at the office vending machine's habit of eating money and dangling snacks, and a very relatable post-it note left for the vending machine guy.

Paul1 min read

2010-08-23

Fun Stuff

VPS.NET Robot

VPS.NET sent over one of their toy robots, who got straight to work stubbing methods for the in-development Blesta 3.0. A lighthearted look from Blesta HQ.

Paul1 min read

2010-02-13

Fun Stuff

Website gets a new look

blesta.com gets its first redesign in about two years, refreshing the look of the site after the previous design ran largely unchanged.

Paul1 min read