How MarsBased website survived Cloudflare’s global outage
After months of regional blocking in Spain, we rebuilt our stack to remove Cloudflare dependencies. Using Render and ImageKit.io, we replaced its performance layer without affecting users. So when Cloudflare went down globally on November 18, our site stayed online.
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Building a marketing website with Vercel’s v0: Our honest experience
Our team recently built and launched a full marketing website using Vercel’s v0, the AI-powered web development tool. Here’s our experience, what impressed us, what still needs work, and why it might be the fastest way to bring a product or startup online today.
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Switching to Plausible: A privacy-friendly analytics tool for MarsBased
At MarsBased, we value privacy, simplicity, and open‑source tools. We replaced Google Analytics with Plausible, a lightweight, privacy‑first solution. This shift keeps us GDPR‑compliant while still providing the insights we need.
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Testing new frameworks & languages: how to separate the grain from the chaff
How to check if a technology is the best fit to add it into your tech stack.
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What is the best Ruby on Rails CMS?
We have compared the most popular CMS built with Ruby on Rails according to user experience, flexibility to develop on top of them and other Martian criteria.
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