A domain name is one of the most basic pieces of the internet. Basically, it is the way that you refer to a site on the internet, it is its address, or simply its name. Here are some domain names you may have heard of: www.google.com www.facebook.com www.thekeesh.com These are all domain names. But so … Continue reading How the Internet Works 2: Domain Names
Step 1: Buy the Domain I usually use Namecheap or Misk to buy the domains. Step 2: Change the Nameservers On Namecheap, go to your domain page, then to the Advanced DNS section, and under DNS/Host Records choose Custom for the Domain Nameserver Type. On Misk, set the nameserver entires. Then I go and enter … Continue reading How I Set Up a New Website
Step 1: Buy the Domain I usually use Namecheap or Misk to buy the domains. Step 2: Change the Nameservers On Namecheap, go to your domain page, then to the Advanced DNS section, and under DNS/Host Records choose Custom for the Domain Nameserver Type. Then I go and enter in my custom domain name servers. … Continue reading How I Make a New Flipside Website
My last few posts have been about names on the internet. I talked about domain names and urls, and today I’m going to talk about IP addresses.. IP Addresses continue the very interesting series of names that we find on the internet. For us, they are sort of the end of the line when it … Continue reading How the Internet Works 4: IP Addresses
What is a URL? It’s just the start of a whole bunch of jargon-y acronyms that you’ll find here on the internet. The quick explanation is that a url is just a full name for something on the internet. Last post I talked about domain names, and domain names are just a part of the … Continue reading How the Internet Works 3: URLs
Buy a domain (misk, namecheap, google domains) Set custom nameservers, I’m using Linode ns1.linode.comns2.linode.comns3.linode.comns4.linode.comns5.linode.com 3. Clone the dns entry in linode (just Domains, then Clone) 4. Setup Up Name Based Virtual Host and Destination Directory I have an apache server setup, so I need to make a new file to configure the virtual host. // … Continue reading Setting up a new website, 2021 version
I got email notifications that my Let’s Encrypt/certbot certificates were expiring, and these should auto-renew. I had explored certbot a bit ago to organize it more, but did not look into all aspects I looked into it a bit more and saw that everything with certbot was getting errors. First there was a misconfiguration due … Continue reading Certbot renewal fixes
