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A few months ago, I got a late-night call from a friend who runs an e-commerce store. His voice was shaking—he'd just switched themes, and his entire site was blank. Products pages were gone. The checkout flow was broken. He had Google Ads launching ...

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That morning, I opened my browser to handle a few comments left overnight. The page spun for a full five seconds—then went completely white, save for a single line of text: Error establishing a database connection I refreshed. Nothing. I tried the ad...