Category: OpenSource

The major PHP 8 release is here on the FastComet servers. Although it was officially released for General Availability on November 26, 2020, it is now fully available for all FastComet customers.…

Six months after Laravel 7, on September 8th, 2020, Laravel 8 was officially released — right on schedule. As always, the new version of the free, open-source PHP web framework comes with some exciting additions and a lot of quality improvements.…

Keeping your apps and software up-to-date is one of the easiest ways to avoid a myriad of security breaches. That should also include keeping the core files of your Joomla! platform updated to the latest maintenance version.…

PHP 7.4, the last minor release before 8.0, was released for General Availability on November 28th, 2019 and as of today, it is fully available for all FastComet customers. Performance is key, and as always, PHP 7.4 does not disappoint.…

Our constant dedication delivering at your fingertips the latest and most stable PHP versions and other features as soon as we can, after rigorously testing it throughout our hosting environment goes without saying.…

If you’ve been to WordCamp once or twice, or maybe you are actively following the WordPress community, chances are you already are aware of the existence of something called “WP CLI.”…

After the recent release of WordPress 4.9.8 (even after the slight delay from the initial date of release) brought the attention of a wider audience of the WordPress community to the Project Gutenberg.…

Creating new projects in JavaScript can be very time consuming if you are not using the proper tools to help you in building their functionality. These developer tools range from task runners which help alleviate the process of running repetitive tasks manually to dependencies managers that take care of the packages required by your project in order for it to operate.…

In the summer of 2013, a small developer team launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a new kind of blogging and publishing platform. Based on Node.js and powered by the Express framework it was built as an alternative to feature-packed content management systems like WordPress and Joomla.…

Do you love the Node.js JavaScript platform for building scalable browser and server applications? As an application programmer, it is difficult not to love JavaScript, right? Node continues to remain a leader in asynchronous framework market, as the platform now supports a huge portion of startups and businesses that are earning hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, establishing itself as a platform that can sustain the huge load, whilst retaining smooth performance.…

At FastComet, we’re huge fans of the Laravel Framework, running a team of PHP devs occasionally working on large, long-term projects. Its vast feature set, extreme flexibility, and expressive object-oriented design make development delightful and allows us to deliver high-quality products that help us improve our service even more.…

OpenCart 3.0 is here! It has been quite a wait for the OpenCart community, but the new update is now accessible for you to enjoy! It was released on June the 19th and it is now available on OpenCart’s official website for downloading.…