> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.upsun.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Matthias Van Woensel

> Articles written by Matthias Van Woensel.

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        <span className="text-xs text-subtle">Wednesday, March 4th 2026</span>
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      <h3 className="blog-card-title group-hover:text-accent transition-colors">That cron should be a worker</h3>
      <p className="blog-card-desc">Long-running crons block your deployments, steal resources from your app container, and create support tickets. Here's when to use workers instead.</p>
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            <img src="/images/posts/insights/why-you-cant-just-add-infinite-php-fpm-workers/why-you-cant-just-add-infinite-php-fpm-workers.webp" alt="Why you can't just add infinite PHP-FPM workers" className="blog-card-img" />
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        <span className="text-xs text-subtle">Monday, December 8th 2025</span>
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      <h3 className="blog-card-title group-hover:text-accent transition-colors">Why you can't just add infinite PHP-FPM workers</h3>
      <p className="blog-card-desc">Workers need memory. Learn how PHP-FPM sizing hints work, why you can't just add infinite workers, and how to tune your worker count based on actual memory usage.</p>
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  <a href="/posts/insights/why-setting-your-php-memory-limit-to-60gb-wont-help" className="blog-card group rounded-xl bg-card border-theme card-hover shadow-sm hover:shadow-md transition-all overflow-hidden flex flex-col">
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            <img src="/images/posts/insights/why-setting-your-php-memory-limit-to-60gb-wont-help/why-setting-your-php-memory-limit-to-60gb-wont-help.webp" alt="Why setting your PHP memory limit to 60GB won't help" className="blog-card-img" />
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        <span className="text-xs text-subtle">Monday, December 1st 2025</span>
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      <h3 className="blog-card-title group-hover:text-accent transition-colors">Why setting your PHP memory limit to 60GB won't help</h3>
      <p className="blog-card-desc">When you see a PHP memory limit error, your instinct shouldn't be to just increase the limit. Learn what PHP memory\_limit actually does and why blindly increasing it can hurt your site's uptime.</p>
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  <a href="/posts/how-it-works/when-php-fpm-runs-out-of-workers-a-502-error-field-guide" className="blog-card group rounded-xl bg-card border-theme card-hover shadow-sm hover:shadow-md transition-all overflow-hidden flex flex-col">
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        <span className="text-xs text-subtle">Monday, November 24th 2025</span>
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      <h3 className="blog-card-title group-hover:text-accent transition-colors">When php-fpm runs out of workers: a 502 error field guide</h3>
      <p className="blog-card-desc">Your PHP site keeps throwing 502 errors. Your CDN shows 503s. Learn why PHP-FPM workers get exhausted and how to diagnose and fix the real problems.</p>
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        <span className="text-xs text-subtle">Monday, November 10th 2025</span>
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      <h3 className="blog-card-title group-hover:text-accent transition-colors">The mystery of the shrinking database dump</h3>
      <p className="blog-card-desc">Your database uses 10GB but dumps to 100MB. Discover why database dumps shrink, how InnoDB fragmentation works, and how to reclaim that missing storage space.</p>
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