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Apr 28, 2024

This website has had many different iterations over the years. Plain HTML, Blogger, WordPress, ClassicPress and now most recently Astro. When I moved this site to Astro I took the path of least resistence and started hosting it on Cloudflare Pages. Over time it became apparent that the Cloudflare Pro ...

Apr 27, 2024

I have been a customer of Cloudflare in some shape or form since 2011. I started like most do using the free plan that they offer. I have been a Pro customer since at least 2016, possibly longer but that is as far back as I could look up invoices. ...

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. ...

Apr 20, 2015

I just recently got back from Disneyland with my family and if there is one thing Disneyland does well it is managing crowds and people in the parks and rides. I am sure Disney does a great deal of testing to discover how best to manage the people ...

Nov 18, 2014

I published a post yesterday over on Cloud Storage Buzz listing 10 ways to backup your website to the cloud. There are a lot of services out there that can help you protect your website and while many of the services I mentioned at Cloud Storage Buzz will help you ...

Mar 31, 2014

Today, March 31st, is World Backup Day and I want to remind you to make sure you have a backup of your data. If you do already have a backup you need to make sure that backup is working and you can successfully restore data from your backup. ...

Feb 15, 2014

I have talked about CloudFlare before page rules to protect your WordPress powered website! One of the great things CloudFlare has introduced is page rules. You can define a page rule to have different rules from the rest of your website. To help protect your WordPress website from a brute force ...

Oct 24, 2013

I meant to post this several months ago but I thought better late than never. I presented about website speed at the first ever Regina Barcamp. I could probably write post upon post upon post on each slide but I will just post the presentation here and if there are ...

Nov 30, 2011

I decided a little while ago to attend Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas in January 2012. For the conference I needed some business cards and wanted to add a QR Code to the card to make it easy to contact me by scanning the code. The problem is most ...

Oct 25, 2011

Over two years ago I signed up with Dropbox and wrote a quick little review of it. Since then I have gotten constant comments on that post of people wanting to increase their Dropbox referral space by leaving their Dropbox referral code. At one point it got so bad I ...