Paweł Holik
PHP / Symfony Tech Lead
20+ years building backend systems and ecommerce platforms with Symfony, Sylius, Drupal and Mautic. Based in Toruń.
As a Tech Lead at Droptica, I focus on architecture and backend solutions.
Here I write about PHP, Symfony, Docker, Linux and my home lab.
notACMS is a Symfony-based static site generator I built in early 2026 to replace 19 years of WordPress on holas.pl. No database, no CMS admin panel, no PHP involved in serving content. The entire site — blog posts, category pages, tag listings, arch…
This is part 2 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 1 covers why WordPress had to go. After deciding to leave WordPress, the question was what to replace it with. Hugo, Jekyll, and Ele…
holas.pl ran on WordPress from 2007 to early 2026. Nineteen years. In that time WordPress grew from a straightforward blogging platform into something I barely recognize — and maintaining it had become more work than maintaining the actual content. T…
This is the follow-up to my 2016 Let's Encrypt post using acme.sh and Apache. That setup worked, but running certificates by hand doesn't scale once you're managing multiple services in Docker. Traefik solves this entirely. Traefik is a reverse proxy…
My previous server — a Banana Pi running Debian — had served its purpose for years, but performance limitations and lack of support for newer technologies prompted me to upgrade. The main goal was to move to a container-based architecture and elimina…