Bernard Zijlstra (@bernardzijlstra) – WordPress user profile

Bio

WordPress Hosting & Security at level-level.com (co-owner). Accessibility advocate (A11Y) with the A11Y Collective (https://www.a11y-collective.com/). Works towards a completely Open Web using the WordPress and the GNU/Linux software ecosystem.

WordPress Origin Story

Around 2010 while working as a Linux engineer for a Dutch hosting company called Nines (bought by Sentia in 2015) we started hosting the first WordPress (version 3) websites. Some time later a small agency from Rotterdam called Level Level started hosting a business blog with Nines, the blog was z24.nl which was rebranded later to businessinsider.nl. The blog went live and died within minutes because the hosting set-up could not cope with the high amount of live traffic. The main problem was an NFS share between multiple servers which was used to house the entire WordPress directory instead of just the uploads directory. I was called in with a colleague to fix it. In 2014 as a freelancer I specialised in managed hosting off WordPress and Level Level was one of my customers and in 2017 I became the co-owner of Level Level.

Contributions

Bernard Zijlstra contributes 2 hours per week to the Hosting team.

Member Since: March 26th, 2014
Location: EU - NL
Website: level-level.com
GitHub: BernardZijlstra
Job Title: Hosting, Security and Compliance
Employer: Level Level
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Created issue #105 in the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
Rename the Master branch to Main
2 years ago
Closed pull request #104 on WordPress/hosting-handbook:
Merge pull request #2 from WordPress/master
2 years ago
Submitted pull request #104 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
Merge pull request #2 from WordPress/master
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Google Drive is Flagging Plugins as ‘Viruses’, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
Drive is used a lot to distribute malware. It is no surprise Google is trying…
2 years ago
Pull request #94 merged into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
added basic info about the Markdown textformat
2 years ago
Created issue #97 in the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
Add a responsible disclosure page
2 years ago
Submitted pull request #94 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
added basic info about the Markdown textformat
2 years ago
Created a topic, FIDO U2F option for 2FA, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Wordfence people, Realy like the plugin, thanks fo…
4 years ago
Created a topic, oEmbed and third party analytics cookies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As I understand the GDPR/ePrivacy law, media loaded on…
6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2014
10 years ago