Posts tagged “Web & Platforms”

A crawler identifying itself as OpenAI’s GPTBot spent four days downloading lyric videos from our music project and left a $749.06 CloudFront bill. How it got in, how we closed the door, and what AWS’s support bot said when we asked for mercy.

Part 2 of 2. If your CMS isn't the predictor, what is? Six operational practices we run across 79 WordPress sites, custom Go applications, and hosted builders. Pick any platform. The operating layer is what wins.

Picking the 'right' CMS won't save a small business in 2026. We run 79 WordPress sites, 47 client reporting workspaces, custom Go applications, and hosted-builder sites in parallel. Seven myths about platform choice, and what the 2026 data actually shows.

Marketing stacks suffer the same dependency rot as code: GTM containers full of dead tags, unpatched plugins, and third-party scripts doubling page weight.