Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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nginx with PHP-FPM Updated Markdown page
How a host serves Exponential with nginx and PHP-FPM: the server block derived from .htaccess_root rule for rule, why its order matters, HTTPS, uploads, and the checks that prove nothing leaks.
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Recipe: run a public demo on LiteSpeed and Plesk Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step recipe for a public Exponential demo on a Plesk server with LiteSpeed and lsphp, as the project's own always-current demo runs - its own system user, a SQLite build every two hours from the current code…
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Velocity beside Apache or nginx Updated Markdown page
The shapes in which Velocity and a traditional web server share a machine or an installation: a proxy in front of Velocity, both serving the same files during a migration, and A/B comparison, with the trust, ownership…
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Velocity for hosts Updated Markdown page
How a hosting company installs, configures, runs and supports Exponential Velocity, the recommended engine: requirements, install, ports and worker user, a boot service, the watchdog, deploys, logs, the dashboard and…
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Velocity HTTPS certificates Updated Markdown page
How Velocity serves HTTPS for a hosted site: certificates from a file or a panel, Let's Encrypt and other ACME CAs, archives and PKCS#12 bundles, the self-signed stand-in, live swap on renewal, HSTS, monitoring expiry…
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Velocity workers and pools Updated Markdown page
How to size and run Velocity's worker pool on a hosting server: fixed and dynamic pools, instances on one port, the zygote, worker replacement, persistent workers, streaming limits, memory measured as PSS, and how to…
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Static publishing and your hosting Updated Markdown page
For hosting providers and administrators - with static publishing the dynamic installation can stay internal, behind a firewall or VPN, while the public site is static; what the build needs from the network, the server…
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Blogs Updated Markdown page
The section for people who run a blog on Exponential by themselves or with a friend - the shipped Blog and Blog post classes, writing and scheduling, tags, comments, RSS feeds and moving from another platform, with the…
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Comments on your blog Updated Markdown page
How comments work on an Exponential blog - the shipped Comment class, the enable comments checkbox, who may comment by default, how to restrict comments to signed-in readers, holding comments for review, fighting spam…
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Moving from another blog platform Updated Markdown page
An honest guide for individuals who want to move a blog from WordPress or another platform to Exponential - there is no one-click importer; the documented path is an export, a conversion script and an import tool - with…
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RSS feeds for your blog Updated Markdown page
How one person gives a blog an RSS or Atom feed with the built-in RSS exports under Setup > RSS - sources, field mapping, format, the feed address, autodiscovery, podcasts, the optional autorss extension, and why the…
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Starting a blog Updated Markdown page
How one person sets up a blog on Exponential with the shipped Blog and Blog post classes - where it lives in the tree, the blog's name and description, the first posts, addresses, a feed, the menu and the decisions to…
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Tags and categories Updated Markdown page
How one person organizes blog posts and portfolio items by topic on Exponential - folders as categories, the keyword field (ezkeyword) the shipped classes use for tags, the eztags extension for a controlled vocabulary…
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Writing and scheduling posts Updated Markdown page
How one person writes, publishes and schedules blog posts on Exponential - the Blog post fields, drafts and preview, the publication date field, publishing at a later date with the Wait until date workflow, unpublishing…
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Checklists for individuals Updated Markdown page
Printable checklists and a worksheet for one person running a site on Exponential - a site plan worksheet before you start, a launch checklist, a monthly upkeep checklist and a family privacy checklist - each linking to…
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Family privacy checklist Updated Markdown page
The checklist one person works through before a family site on Exponential goes live and once a year after - agreements with relatives, what never goes online, children and photos, accounts and two-step sign-in, the…
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Launch checklist for individuals Updated Markdown page
The checklist one person works through on the day an Exponential personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site goes live - accounts and security, content, address and HTTPS, forms and mail, permissions…
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Monthly upkeep checklist Updated Markdown page
The hour-a-month checklist for one person running an Exponential site - updates, backups and an off-site copy, accounts, comments and forms, broken links, errors, renewals, content freshness and a short note of what you…
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Site plan worksheet Updated Markdown page
A fill-in worksheet one person completes before installing Exponential for a personal site, portfolio, blog, family site or club site - purpose, readers, pages, private parts, accounts, features, hosting, budget, upkeep…
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Club sites Updated Markdown page
The section for people who run the site of a club, a team or a hobby group on Exponential, usually as a volunteer - members and registration, a members' area, newsletters with cjw_newsletter, events, forms, polls and…