Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Peak traffic planning Updated Markdown page
How to prepare an Exponential site for a sale, a campaign, a newsletter send or a press mention, from the calendar and a measurement of your own pages to caches, warming, a change freeze and a plan for the day itself.
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Preview before you publish Updated Markdown page
How drafts, versions, preview, approval workflows and the trash keep editorial mistakes away from customers, and how a business sets rules for who publishes what, so that content changes are as safe as code changes.
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Release line and support policy Updated Markdown page
Which Exponential versions are maintained, how releases and security fixes reach you, which PHP versions are supported, and what that means for a business planning years ahead.
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Reliability FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short, sourced answers to the questions owners and managers ask most about Exponential's stability, support, uptime, backups, upgrades, Velocity, databases and what to do when something goes wrong.
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Reliability scorecard Updated Markdown page
A checklist to score how reliably your Exponential site is run, in ten areas with three levels each, how to use the score each quarter, and links to the page that explains every item.
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Restore drills Updated Markdown page
How to prove that your backups work by restoring one on another machine on a schedule, what to check, how to keep the copy from mailing real customers, and how to record the result as evidence.
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Static and response cache Updated Markdown page
The two caches that answer visitors without running the application, the static cache and Velocity's response cache, what each one costs and gives a business, when to use which, and how to keep them from serving stale…
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Upgrade check and file consistency Updated Markdown page
What the upgrade check in the Exponential administration proves to a business, how the file and database consistency checks work, how to read their findings, and when to run them, before and after an upgrade and after…
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Upgrades without surprises Updated Markdown page
How a business plans, rehearses and runs an Exponential upgrade so that customers notice nothing but the improvements, with the phases, the roles, the tools that ship with the product and the decisions to make before…
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Uptime practice Updated Markdown page
The daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly routine that keeps an Exponential site available, who does each part, and which shipped commands and pages make it quick.
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Velocity for businesses Updated Markdown page
What Exponential Velocity, the application server bundled with Exponential, gives a business in plain words, the documented figures with their context, what it needs from your hosting, and when a traditional web server…
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Why stability matters Updated Markdown page
What an unstable website costs a business, and the concrete things in Exponential's history, release rules and shipped tools that keep a site stable for years.
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Security and data protection Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the security section. Basics for businesses that keep customer data in Exponential - security, GDPR, where personal data lives, consent, accounts, access reviews, updates, retention and evidence from…
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Access reviews Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step yearly review of who can do what on an Exponential site - roles marked as full access, sensitive policies, accounts nobody uses, people who left - using the role pages, Check user accounts and the audit…
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Compliance evidence from the audit trail Updated Markdown page
How a business uses Exponential's tamper-evident audit trail as evidence for auditors, customers and its own reviews - what it records, how its integrity is proven, how to export a signed bundle, which alerts to route…
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Consent and forms Updated Markdown page
How Exponential handles consent for e-mail (essential and optional mail, double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe, the consent log and the suppression list), what newsletters add, and how to run contact and lead forms that…
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GDPR basics Updated Markdown page
The EU General Data Protection Regulation in outline for a business running Exponential - roles, principles and people's rights - mapped to the software features and commands that help, and to the decisions that remain…
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Personal data in Exponential Updated Markdown page
Where an Exponential installation stores personal data - user accounts, sessions, orders, form submissions, mail preferences and consent, newsletter subscribers, notifications, search phrases, logs, the audit trail…
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Security basics for businesses Updated Markdown page
The ten security basics a business site on Exponential needs, what the software already does for each, what you must decide, and who in a small organization usually does it. Not legal advice.
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Security updates and disclosure Updated Markdown page
What a business needs to know about security fixes for Exponential - which versions are supported, how fixes are published, how to tell whether a site is patched, who applies updates and how fast, and how to report a…