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Articles on infrastructure, Laravel & open source
PHP Base Images v1
· 10 min

PHP Base Images v1

The images size their own FPM pool from measured memory and expose the queue-depth signals a scale-out decision needs. What they didn't have was version numbers. v1 adds releases, a channel tag that gets weekly security patches without crossing a tooling major, and tags that only move after the image passes.
pm.max_children Is a Guess
· 7 min

pm.max_children Is a Guess

Every PHP-FPM config starts with a number someone guessed. Fine for one app, but on a box running fifty pools that share the same RAM, it's how you starve some sites and pay for idle workers on others. So I built a tool that measures what workers actually cost and sizes the ceilings from that.

2023

Why I Started Cbox
· 5 min

Why I Started Cbox

Cbox started as an online PDA built with PHP and Flash before I turned 18. The name was originally Combo-Box but that sounded wrong, so Cbox was born. Twenty years later, the name stuck but everything else changed.

2022

Migrating a Million Videos Without Downtime
· 5 min

Migrating a Million Videos Without Downtime

I migrated close to a million videos from one hosting provider to another at TV2 Regionerne, and built a transcoding platform to re-encode archive video for cost savings. All without a single broken embed.

2021

Election Night: 90,000 Requests Per Second
· 5 min

Election Night: 90,000 Requests Per Second

The 2021 regional election in Denmark pushed the TV2 Regionerne websites to 3 billion requests in a single day. Here is how the infrastructure held up.

2020

Leaving EasyInspect
· 4 min

Leaving EasyInspect

After five years, I sold my share and left EasyInspect. The technology worked. The timing did not. Everyone wanted drone inspection, but nobody's existing workflows could absorb it yet. My vision for the product had diverged from where it was heading.

2018

UAV Commercial Show London
· 3 min

UAV Commercial Show London

EasyInspect at the Denmark Pavilion in London. Showing Inspection Cloud to European drone operators and meeting clients like SBB, Vejdirektoratet, and Sund & Bælt.
EasyInspect at Commercial UAV Expo
· 3 min

EasyInspect at Commercial UAV Expo

Showing Inspection Cloud at Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas. Booth #132, good conversations about scaling drone inspection workflows for enterprise clients.

2017

Launching Inspection Cloud at TUS Nordics
· 5 min

Launching Inspection Cloud at TUS Nordics

After two years of building in stealth, I finally showed Inspection Cloud publicly at TUS Nordics in Odense. Innovation Fund Denmark backed us with a Grand Solutions grant. The response was overwhelming.
Laracon EU 2017: First Time
· 3 min

Laracon EU 2017: First Time

I took two developers from EasyInspect to Laracon EU in Amsterdam. First Laracon. First time meeting Taylor. We were building drone inspection software on Laravel and it felt like the right community to be part of.

2016

Denmark's First Approved Drone School
· 5 min

Denmark's First Approved Drone School

MyDroneAcademy became Denmark's first approved drone school on August 31, 2016. The first class of 8 pilots took their theory exam on September 3rd at Amager Fælled. We went on to train over half of all Danish drone pilots.

2013

Running Denmark's Largest TeamSpeak Hosting
· 3 min

Running Denmark's Largest TeamSpeak Hosting

From 2013 to 2016 I ran what was probably Denmark's largest TeamSpeak 3 server hosting through Cbox. 1.5 kr per slot, 99.99% uptime, DDoS protection, instant provisioning. Then Discord happened.
Eventmanager: Accreditation for Festivals
· 3 min

Eventmanager: Accreditation for Festivals

Up to 40% of festival visitors are accredited guests who need different handling than ticket holders. I built Eventmanager for Ringsted Festival to manage the complexity.

2012

Talk IP and Flexfone: Building a Business Telephony Provider
· 4 min

Talk IP and Flexfone: Building a Business Telephony Provider

I co-founded Talk IP with Thomas Fest. We resold Flexfone with our own SIP trunks, custom software, and QoS internet for Danish businesses.

2010

Building Broker Telephony for Danske Bank
· 4 min

Building Broker Telephony for Danske Bank

I built secure broker telephony systems for Danske Bank with direct secondary lines, logging, and high-security requirements. Implementations in London, Stockholm, and New York.
Building an ERP System in Arezzo
· 3 min

Building an ERP System in Arezzo

I spent months in Tuscany building a web-based ERP/CRM for Italian jewelry manufacturer Bacio Italy. Supply chain, stock, dealers, orders, production. Then they went bankrupt.

2007

GoIP: Running IP Telephony for 100,000 Customers
· 4 min

GoIP: Running IP Telephony for 100,000 Customers

As telephony specialist at Debitel Danmark, I ran GoIP - one of Denmark's largest IP telephony providers. 100,000+ private customers, Asterisk, and a migration to Centile that could not fail.

2005

Hosting Unity's First Public Release
· 3 min

Hosting Unity's First Public Release

Before Unity became a multi-billion dollar game engine, they were a small team in Copenhagen. Cbox hosted their first public release.
100,000 Websites on One Linux Server
· 3 min

100,000 Websites on One Linux Server

Hotserv.dk was a free web hosting platform I built when hosting was still expensive. Custom-compiled Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a single server running 100,000+ sites.

2003

Heste-Nettet: Building Denmark's Largest Horse Community
· 4 min

Heste-Nettet: Building Denmark's Largest Horse Community

I built and hosted Heste-Nettet, one of Denmark's biggest online portals. Forum, marketplace, live video streaming with DRM, and a SAML2 identity provider. We won the FDIH E-handelsprisen.