Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Daily checklist Updated Markdown page
Ten minutes a day for whoever looks after an Exponential site - is the site up, what is waiting for approval, which forms came in, the store's orders, alerts in the mailbox - and what to do when something looks wrong.
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Monthly checklist Updated Markdown page
The monthly checklist for the owner of an Exponential site - releases and updates, backups, security signals, accounts, form data, content checks, costs and the store - with the questions to put to the host and partner…
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Quarterly checklist Updated Markdown page
The quarterly checklist for the owner of an Exponential site - a restore test, an access review, extension updates, a content audit, accessibility spot checks, costs against budget and the follow-up of the yearly…
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Weekly checklist Updated Markdown page
Thirty minutes a week for the site manager of an Exponential site - content that needs attention, broken links and not-found pages, accounts, searches without results, the store, and the questions for the host - with…
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Yearly checklist Updated Markdown page
The yearly checklist for the owner of an Exponential site - the value review, the operational annual review, release line and PHP, contracts with host and partner, data protection and retention, accessibility, VAT for…
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Cost of ownership for owners Updated Markdown page
Tracking what a running Exponential site really costs - the cost lines an owner pays after launch, where each one is billed, a yearly cost register, the costs that creep in unnoticed, and the questions that keep…
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Feature tour Updated Markdown page
The main features of Exponential in one tour for site owners - content, pages, languages and sites, commerce, communication, integration, the writing assistant, operations and security - with who on your team uses each…
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Features customers often miss Updated Markdown page
Tools that ship with Exponential and save a team time, but that owners and editors often do not know they have - in content work, tidying up, the store, administration and help - each with where to find it and whether a…
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Measuring ROI Updated Markdown page
How an owner measures the return on a site that runs on Exponential - choosing a few measures that matter, where each figure comes from in the software and outside it, how often to collect it, and the traps that make…
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ROI example assumptions Updated Markdown page
A worked one-year ROI calculation for a running store on Exponential, with every input clearly labeled as an example assumption, the arithmetic step by step, a sensitivity table, and how to replace each figure with your…
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ROI worksheet Updated Markdown page
A yearly worksheet for the owner of a running Exponential site - planned against actual costs and benefits, the sources of each figure, the result, and the decisions that follow. Template; every figure is your own.
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What you own Updated Markdown page
What a customer of Exponential owns and controls: the software's license, your content and data, the code written for you, the accounts, the domain and the backups, and the questions to settle with your partner and host…
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Applying the 6.0.15 database update Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step procedure for the database part of an upgrade from any 6.0.x release to 6.0.15 - backup, maintenance mode, the dbupdate-6.0.0-6.0.15.sql file per engine, what it adds, the audit tables with…
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Backups per engine Updated Markdown page
How to back up the database of an Exponential site on each engine (sqlite3 .backup or VACUUM INTO, pg_dump, mongodump, mariadb-dump and mysqldump with --single-transaction, Data Pump for Oracle), what else belongs in a…
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Character sets and collations Updated Markdown page
How Exponential stores text as UTF-8 on each of the six engines, which character set and collation to create, how the MySQL and MariaDB connection differs from the tables, how case-sensitive and case-insensitive…
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Checking the schema after an upgrade Updated Markdown page
How to confirm that an Exponential database has the schema of its release - the database consistency check in Setup > Upgrade check and the kinds of finding it reports, the MongoDB collection check, ezsqldiff.php…
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Choosing an engine Updated Markdown page
A decision guide for database administrators - which of the six supported databases fits a given Exponential site, from one machine with SQLite to several web servers on PostgreSQL, MariaDB or MySQL, and when MongoDB or…
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Clustering: DFS and its metadata database Updated Markdown page
The database side of an Exponential cluster on several web servers - the DFS file handler and its metadata table ezdfsfile, the backends for MySQL and MariaDB (in the kernel), PostgreSQL (a separate package) and Oracle…
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Database accounts and privileges Updated Markdown page
The database account an Exponential site needs on each engine and the least privileges that work - MySQL and MariaDB grants, PostgreSQL ownership, MongoDB roles in the site's database, Oracle grants from ora-grant.php…
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Database administrators: start here Updated Markdown page
Where database administrators start with Exponential. The six supported engines in one paragraph, a first fifteen minutes, the rules every DBA keeps, and a map of every page for database administrators, from engine…