Two reminders from the past month that owning a domain and controlling what it serves are separate things. .name. On 15 April Verisign asked ICANN to discontinue third level .name registrations , the style, along with…
Ran the codes showing on Spaceship on 23 August 2026 against the renewal prices, because the first year is the number they put in front of you and the renewal is the number you pay four more times. | code | TLD | 1st…
No analytics on the site, so I pulled the numbers from the CDN instead, which counts everything rather than everything that runs JavaScript. A week of requests, by user agent. Around 83,000 requests a day. 96 percent…
Using a domain you actually own for internal machines, rather than a made up suffix. Worth it, with one trap. What it fixes Real certificates on internal services, so no browser warnings and no per device trust store…
Small product sending maybe a dozen transactional emails a day sign up confirmations, password resets, receipts. They go out from my own domain through a sending service. A meaningful share never arrive, or arrive in…
My certificate client fails validation with a message about DNSSEC, a missing DNSKEY, and no valid records found for the name. The domain resolves fine from my machine, from my phone, and from every online lookup tool I…
My certificate client fails during the challenge with an authorization failure. The domain resolves, the site is reachable in a browser, and the same setup worked when the certificate was first issued months ago. The…
I am moving a site to a new domain and want the old address to redirect to the new one. My registrar offers a forwarding feature, which I turned on. Plain HTTP requests to the old domain forward correctly. HTTPS…
Static site. Deployed changes, checked in a private window and it looked right, then had three people tell me they were still seeing the previous version. One of them was still on it four days later. Hard refresh fixes…
I want my site served over HTTPS. My understanding was that I could obtain a certificate cheaply, or free, and install it. My hosting provider instead offers several certificate products with recurring fees that are not…
I run three small WordPress sites for local businesses, maybe 3,000 visits a month between all of them, on a shared plan that was $2.95/month and just renewed at $14.99. I have about $20/month total to work with and I…
Small clinic adjacent business, not storing health records but the client is nervous about data leaving the country and I'd rather not argue the point. I need a VPS or managed plan with a Canadian location, roughly 2…
The documentation says one configures the server to fetch documents from the back end and the other rewrites redirects originating there so they point at the right place on the front end server. I can read that and I…
Spread over three registrars because I bought them at different times in different moods. One is a live site, two are redirects, the rest are ideas I have not built. The renewal emails now arrive at a rate of about two…
Personal site, five mostly static pages plus a contact form, about 200 visitors a month, and I want to spend as close to nothing as possible without waking up to it being gone. I already had one free host disappear with…
Moved a small site to a new host last month, changed the nameservers because the new host told me to, and took the client's email down for most of a day. I now understand that I did that to myself and I still do not…
About to move four sites off a shared plan onto a small Hetzner cloud instance, mostly because the renewal went silly and I want to stop being repriced every year. I'm comfortable in a terminal but I have never run a…
One brochure site, five pages plus a blog they will update twice a year, about 1500 visits a month. The client pays for their own hosting and domain and will absolutely ring me in eighteen months if the renewal doubles.…
I have about a dozen domains with Porkbun and I like them a lot as a registrar. Now I need somewhere to put two small WordPress sites and their hosting is right there and cheap. I'm wondering whether keeping everything…
Design portfolio, maybe 30 images, no backend, and I'd like not to pay for it while I'm between contracts. I know free tiers are loss leaders and I'm fine with that. I want to know which limit I'll hit first: bandwidth,…