Oct 25, 2023

Over the years I have hosted websites on many different web hosting providers. From simple shared hosting plans to having my own dedicated web server but in this move to Astro this website is now not really hosted anywhere, instead it is hosted everywhere. In this case everywhere Cloudflare has

Oct 16, 2023

One of the first steps I had to sort out in deciding to move from WordPress/ClassicPress to Astro is how do I get the content out of WordPress/ClassicPress to a format that Astro would be able to deal with. Fortunately Astro accepts content in markdown so a quick search for

Oct 15, 2023

This has been in the works for awhile, but it was finally time to move from ClassicPress to Astro. The site is not complete yet, but I have ported the posts and several pages over and I feel confident that most of the content is here. I am still in

Apr 13, 2023

TL;DR: Cloudflare needs to disable IPv6 that they use to communicate with the Gmail servers to stop Gmail from bouncing all routed email. Don't let Cloudflare support tell you that email routing to Gmail addresses is your fault. Support tried to brush me off and tell me that the problem was

Mar 18, 2023

TL;DR: Cloudflare email routing and support sucks, move your email forwarding to ImprovMX. One of the problems with hosting your website on a service like DigitalOcean is the fact that they don't offer email. If you want an email address associated with your domain you had to go elsewhere.

Mar 1, 2023

Two companies I really like are Backblaze and Cloudflare. I have trusted Backblaze for years with my personal computer backup and I have been a long time customer of Cloudflare since 2011 at least. Both companies are part of the bandwidth alliance, meaning you don't have to worry about bandwidth

Feb 19, 2023

I saw this plugin mentioned on Mastodon today and thought I would give it a try on ClassicPress and see if it worked. Install in ClassicPress went easily, like most WordPress plugins do. There were no warnings and ClassicPress says it is compatible. The only hard part was finding the

Jan 25, 2023

Most of the WordPress/ClassicPress websites I work on use Cloudflare I don't often have problems with the W3 Total Cache footer comments in the footer. Cloudflare usually just removes them. But recently I was helping a friend with a website that had the W3 Total Cache plugin installed and the

Dec 22, 2022

If you do a search on Google for "safari blocking google analytics" you will probably find a lot of posts like the following: As mentioned above, Safari does not block Google Analytics. You can still still see your website analytics. Jun 3, 2022 https://www.simpleanalytics.com/en/blog/does-safari-block-google-analytics-and-apple-privacy-updates No, Safari 14 (or any

Dec 18, 2022

Twitter and Elon Musk are getting dumber by the day. Honestly I have mostly stopped visiting Twitter and spend more time now on Mastodon but it recently came to my attention that you can no longer link to your Mastodon account from Twitter. Essentially Twitter has put up what is