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

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