Archive of posts filed under the Miscellaneous category.

I’ve steadily moving my domains from Squarespace over to Cloudflare in order to take advantage of the lower fees and freebies such as their web application firewall (WAF). So far I’ve moved one website that wasn’t set up for SSL and documented the quirks around the Cloudflare setup, and then another website with SSL and …

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I’ve been moving my domains to Cloudflare, and after initially having problems getting Cloudflare to work with a non-SSL website, it was time to move a website that has SSL using Let’s Encrypt. Should be OK this time I thought… just let Cloudflare’s edge servers handle the SSL. Nope, it broke again! Read on to …

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I recently moved a domain to Cloudflare and to my delight I found that Cloudflare’s edge servers provide SSL, which automatically upgrades your http:// connection to https:// free of charge. Brilliant, I thought! Except it broke my website. Read on to find out why, and how to fix it!

I wanted to transfer a UK (.co.uk) domain away from Squarespace and decided that Cloudflare would be a good domain registrar to use. Along the way I encountered a few bumps in the road, and a few gotchas, but eventually I got there. Read on to find out how to avoid my mistakes!

I started migrating all of my domains away from Squarespace this week. And as I started to write a blog post about why I chose Cloudflare it occurred to me that I was going on a tangent about how much I disliked Squarespace. So here’s a post about that instead! Read on to find out …

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