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Why “443 Monkeys”?

Port 443 is where HTTPS lives, and it's where most of our work ends up: storefronts, APIs and the WordPress backends behind them. The monkeys are us, hitting keys until things work, then writing down exactly what worked.

We build headless shops and sites with Astro on the front, WordPress and WooCommerce behind, and Cloudflare in between. This blog is where we publish the runbooks: tested step by step on real projects, with the outages and dead ends left in, because those are usually the useful part.

What you'll find here

• Security and infrastructure for headless WordPress: Zero Trust, WAF rules, origin lockdowns.
• Astro, WooCommerce and PhantomWP patterns that held up in production.
• Prompts and workflows for doing this work with AI coding agents.

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