A part of my day job involves managing various servers and web services. There was a time that dealing with DDoS attacks was a mega stressful event that could last from hours to days. It generally involved waking up to the boss or team members or automated alarms messaging me about dead services, followed by — Continue reading »
NYC / Manhattan From Up Above
📆 February 25, 2023
Sometimes one needs to be at the right time, the right place, with the right weather. That was the case for me on a recent business trip on a JetBlue flight from Westchester, NY to Florida. The plane took off heading south and within 10 minutes at 10,000ish feet spectacular aerial New York City scenes — Continue reading »
Sneaky Ads in Email Inbox
📆 September 15, 2022
There was a time, not so long ago, when a sizeable portion of online advertising was a slimy business. Websites had popups, pop-unders, hidden click layers, gateway pages, and many more tricks we have forgotten about. That’s a good thing that we can’t remember so many of those deceptive practices. It means the industry has — Continue reading »
Cloudflare One-Step Under Attack Mode For Multiple/All Zones
📆 September 2, 2022
The explosive surge in online hacks and attacks has forced may sites to seek out ways to mitigate such threats. Cloudflare’s Firewall is an indispensable tool to protect sites or specific assets within sites from online threats, specifically the automated threats known as bots that relentlessly scan sites for vulnerabilities and exploits. The JS Challenge — Continue reading »
Migrating To Cloud, Digital Ocean, Cloudflare
📆 July 22, 2021
When I started this site decades ago, I followed the usual path at that time to launch sites, shared hosting. There were many vendors to choose from but nothing like the quantity and diversity of what’s available today. I registered the domain, settled on a small vendor for $5/month, got my cPanel and terminal login — Continue reading »
JAMstack - How To Make The Web Slower
📆 April 23, 2021
Starting a few years ago everywhere you look, sites are getting updated with a new approach known as JAMstack. JAM, initials for JavaScript, API, and Markup is lauded as more revolutionary, more scalable, speedier, and more flexible than the older style website development. Some of these claims may be true but for the most part — Continue reading »
Goodbye to Pingdom
📆 January 7, 2019
I have used the free Pingdom service for nearly 9 years to monitor the health of this site. Over the years it has been a helpful service and at times they would add even more useful features. Then came 2014 when SolarWinds, a public-then-private-then-public company catering to businesses with their analytics products and services, acquired — Continue reading »
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