I've been using Ghost as my blogging platform for quite some time and I've also been using Cloudflare for a good while too. Recently these companies came together and Ghost(Pro) started using Cloudflare by default. Whilst this is probably a great thing for most, it left me wihout control…
Tag: CloudFlare
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With the continued growth of Report URI we're seeing a larger and larger variety of sites use the service. With that diversity comes additional requirements that need to be met, some of them simple and some of them less so. Here's a quick look at those challenges and how they…
I recently gave a brand new talk at NDC Oslo about how we scaled Report URI from 10,000 reports per month to 10,000 per second! The talk was well received and got great feedback with some good questions in the Q&A too. I wanted to answer…
Just last week I wrote about how I improved the security and privacy of all devices on my home network using a Raspberry Pi, Pi-Hole and the new 1.1.1.1 resolver from Cloudflare with DoH. Following deployment, the dashboards and metrics on the Pi-Hole really shone a light…
DNS is the protocol that makes the web work. It's how we convert easy to remember names like facebook.com into hard to remember IP addresses like 157.240.1.35 and others. Without it, the web wouldn't work but DNS has a problem, it's not secure. The Problem DNS…
Migrating your site to HTTPS can be hard, really hard. There are countless different ways to perform your migration and various tools and techniques that can help you smooth out the transition. This is a high-level deployment plan that should help you to consider all of the aspects that you…
We recently launched a brand new version of Report URI and as part of that launch we moved from our .io domain to our .com domain. It's such a simple thing to do, moving from one domain to another, all you need to do is issue a permanent redirect... The…
CloudFlare have recently announced two great new features in the form of Keyless SSL and Universal SSL. Despite the fact that Keyless SSL addresses some of the concerns I outlined in my previous blog post, I still can't bring myself to switch back. Keyless SSL Keyless SSL allows a host…
As I'm about to lose my free DynDNS account, along with everyone else, it was time to find an alternative. DynDNS has served me well for a great many years in solving the problem of remotely connecting back to my house. Now they plan to revoke all free accounts, I…
CloudFlare is an incredibly advanced content delivery network (CDN) that offers boosts to the security and performance of your site. They act as a reverse proxy and shield your web server from exposure to the wider Internet. You get huge bandwidth savings and a reduction in the resources consumed on…
