Engineering - Sapphire Blog

2021 Needs and Growth: New server needs to support today and into the future

Sapphire needs a new denser server for GitGud, Mixtape, and Tavrn and we're starting a GoFundMe campaign to raise the funds to increase our server capacity for 2021 and onward.

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Sapphire 2019 Data Breach

What Happened?When we converted our Apache configuration to NGINX, we used an automated tool and it did not convert the "no PHP execution access" on our avatar and cover uploads. This allowed a 3rd party to upload and execute a PHP shell in which they could possibly downloaded a

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Join Us! We’re looking for a development partner to take Mixtape to the next level

Status of this position: ClosedWe’re looking for development partner to help take our top 30k website (via Alexa) with 45.1 million unique visitors per month to the next level. What we’re looking for– Comfortable with small teams – Experience in scaling web applications for rapid expansion or server

Rules of Aquisition

Rule of Acquisition #125 – You can’t make a deal if you’re dead

Rule of Acquisition #125: You can’t make a deal if you’re dead.To be a donations based organization. You need to be able to accept donations. So we had to put together a campaign to raise funding. Putting together a crowdfunding campaign isn’t easy. Who are we?

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Rule of Acquisition #3: Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.

One of the things that got me interested in Sapphire was Michael’s openness about talking about his infrastructure and how much he was spending to host his services. Here’s the layout of the servers soon.http://t.co/wERmVLyqou will get it’s own server and a euro