FrankenPHP combines Caddy and PHP into a single binary: automatic HTTPS, HTTP/3 and worker mode. Installation on Debian and Ubuntu, classic mode, tested worker mode, Docker and precautions before migrating.
GLPI is the French acronym for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique — the free IT asset manager. It began in 2003 at the INDEPNET association, became a Teclib’ product in 2015, and on 1 October 2025 reached version 11. In June 2026, the stable community release is 11.0.8; version 10.0 still … Read more
Debian 12 ships PHP 8.2. Ubuntu 24.04 ships 8.3. Debian 13, 8.4. Ubuntu 26.04, 8.5. A real host needs all three at once: the old WordPress site, the new Laravel application, and the cron CLI. The distribution repository does not allow it. Ondřej Surý’s does. nginx comes from nginx.org — stable, pinned, without mixing … Read more
Roundcube began as a personal project in Switzerland in July 2005: an IMAP webmail application in PHP that used real Ajax, not a CGI form. The first stable release came on March 4, 2008. Version 1.0 followed on April 7, 2014. On May 10, 2026, version 1.7 arrived. On the 6 … Read more
In 2002, Mischa Peters of High5! released a PHP application so he would not have to edit MySQL by hand: virtual domains, mailboxes, and aliases. He called it PostfixAdmin. GPL. Postfix delivered the mail; it lacked a service counter. Twenty-four years later, PostfixAdmin 4.0.5 (July 5, 2026) is still that counter — now with TOTP, app passwords, DKIM, … Read more
On March 19, 2005, NagiosQL arrived on SourceForge. Martin of wizonet put on the web what Nagios administrators had been doing in vim: host, service, contact, timeperiod, template — in a form, in MySQL, with a button to write to disk and another to run nagios -v. Twenty-one years later, version 3.5.0 still … Read more
In 2017, HHVM was the performance shortcut: Facebook’s JIT, WordPress and Laravel running faster than Ubuntu’s PHP 5.6/7.0. Nine years later, Zend Engine won — PHP 7, then 8, a proper OPcache, … Read more
