Self-hosting
Running ShopClass, and the data it depends on, on servers you control.
Speed up a PHP classifieds site with nginx FastCGI cache
In our tests a ShopClass home page went from 541 to 7,584 requests a second with nginx's FastCGI cache. Here is the setup, and the free plugin that purges pages.
Why we built our own places dataset, and gave it away
ShopClass needed countries, states and cities it could ship with no strings attached. Nothing fit, so we built one from Wikidata and released it as CC0.
Zero-downtime ShopClass deploys: blue-green with an nginx edge
Upgrade a Docker Compose ShopClass site without a single 502. Two app containers, an nginx edge that flips between them, and an instant rollback.