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C-Euro posted:Hmmm, I added an A record named @ for each of the four IP addresses listed by GitHub and gave them 1 hour TTLs, while deleting any other A record named @. That was over an hour ago and attempting to load the site says that its server IP address can't be found. On the Settings page for the repository holding the site's code, I'm also seeing "Domain's DNS record could not be retrieved". Do I need to add or remove other DNS records, or does the TTL not actually indicate how long it takes such changes to go into effect? It sounds like you followed the right steps. The domain is either not configured properly, or you have old records cached from before the TTL. Try looking up the DNS records through e.g. https://mxtoolbox.com/. Sorry for the trouble. There are a lot of gotchas there including misplaced periods which end up ruining everything. Some editors need a period at the end of the IP, some don't. While you're testing, set the TTL to a short time limit such as 60-300 seconds, so you don't need to wait as long between changes. If you don't want to share more details I reiterate that you can PM me and we can probably solve this quickly once I can debug from my end as well. xtal fucked around with this message at 03:34 on May 7, 2020 |
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Well I went upstairs to take a shower, came back down and now the site does load at her purchased domain name  Still getting that same error in the repository's settings that the domain's DNS record couldn't be retrieved though. There were a couple of CNAME entries I added to the host's DNS records before I realized those were the wrong type, which I did delete before I stepped away. Maybe that was the difference?https://www.[companyname].com does automatically redirect to the purchased [companyname].com though, I'm not sure if I set that up without knowing or if it was automated somewhere along the way. I'm not entirely sure what I did with all of this but it works, thanks a bunch for your help xtal! ...and now she wants an About page to link from the main landing page  But that's "a weekend project". Gonna force her to give me really clear direction on what she wants before I start figuring out how to make it.
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C-Euro posted:Well I went upstairs to take a shower, came back down and now the site does load at her purchased domain name When you go to the repository settings, that is going to abide by the same TTL and caching rules as your browser, so it may take just as long and behave as unpredictably. Once you get to the point where you have multiple pages, you may be interested in converting this site to use Jekyll, which has first-class support from GitHub. You would need to change your HTML files to be templates, and then write the contents of your index/about/etc pages as Markdown. The Markdown will be automatically turned in to HTML, inserted into the template and shown on the page. This makes it pretty easy to edit for laypeople as well.
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xtal posted:When you go to the repository settings, that is going to abide by the same TTL and caching rules as your browser, so it may take just as long and behave as unpredictably. Thanks, I think her plan is to just have this landing/sales page that then links visitors to her store and calendar which are hosted elsewhere. She has asked me to put together an About page with this same style though, which I assume would have to be set up within a separate GitHub repository?
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May 11, 2020 02:32
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No, separate html file in the same repository
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May 11, 2020 02:47
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Rufus Ping posted:No, separate html file in the same repository Oh nice. Finally, something easy 
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May 12, 2020 05:59
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Heard a rumor GoDaddy is dropping email support on some(all) hosting plans in favor of selling O365 instead. Anybody a GoDaddy customer and get an email you want to share with the group?
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DarkLotus posted:Heard a rumor GoDaddy is dropping email support on some(all) hosting plans in favor of selling O365 instead. I dont think anyone will respond due to the shame of being a godaddy customer.
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RoboBoogie posted:I dont think anyone will respond due to the shame of being a godaddy customer. LOL, maybe so. I thought it was worth asking 
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May 17, 2020 23:49
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We have domains from them but I haven't heard anything about email
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May 18, 2020 00:04
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Oh hey looks like all of bluehosts email servers are down right now. Real fun.
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BonoMan posted:Oh hey looks like all of bluehosts email servers are down right now. Real fun. Ugh, that’s the worst. Dreamhost’s email servers go down all the time too. I don’t know why hosting providers email systems are always terrible, I’ve never found any to be reliable. If a client wants us to handle email for them we just tell them to pay for G Suite and be done with it.
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frogbs posted:Ugh, that’s the worst. Yeah I've set up a lot of lateral businesses for this client and they're all setup with G Suite. This lone, original site of theirs is still on Bluehost and god it's scrap.
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May 24, 2020 05:26
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frogbs posted:Ugh, that’s the worst. You're comparing a purpose built distributed email system at scale and a half-assed install of exim to tick a box so users can get their 2 emails a day, both of which are spam.
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Biowarfare posted:You're comparing a purpose built distributed email system at scale and a half-assed install of exim to tick a box so users can get their 2 emails a day, both of which are spam. Bazinga, I love it when people compare O365 or Gmail to Exim or Postfix. Also, FYI, ApisCP uses Postfix which in my experience is far superior to cPanel and exim.
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I read the suggestions at the beginning of the thread but need a little help. I'm after a small amount of web space. Just to host my lovely ancient website and a few small pictures and programs. My site currently resides on the server of an ISP that I am no longer with. My current provider doesn't offer web space. What's good for my crusty old low traffic website?
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General_Failure posted:I read the suggestions at the beginning of the thread but need a little help. I'm after a small amount of web space. Just to host my lovely ancient website and a few small pictures and programs. My site currently resides on the server of an ISP that I am no longer with. My current provider doesn't offer web space. Is it static? If so, Github pages for sure, read the earlier posts in this thread about it. Or gitlab has a similar feature. This will be free. If you need to host WordPress or rails or something, I suggest digital ocean, vultr or prgrmr.com. DO is the most popular, Vultr is the cheapest, prgmr is the most cost effective. This will cost between 2.5 and 5 dollars a month.
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xtal posted:Is it static? If so, Github pages for sure, read the earlier posts in this thread about it. Or gitlab has a similar feature. This will be free. Isn't that more for a front end for a user's github projects? quote:If you need to host WordPress or rails or something, I suggest digital ocean, vultr or prgrmr.com. DO is the most popular, Vultr is the cheapest, prgmr is the most cost effective. This will cost between 2.5 and 5 dollars a month. Yeah I don't need any serverside functionality besides storage. The thing that prompted me to ask is today I have various bits and pieces that don't really belong anywhere besides an oldschool web page.
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You can make a private Github or (I strongly prefer this) gitlab repo that hosts static files for free, with custom domains, automatic ssl, etc. It's more like static file hosting with git instead of ftp. Only the marketing suggests it be used for software projects.
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You'll only run in to issues with Github pages when you are hosting files in the hundreds of megabytes, due to the limitations of git vs ftp. It would be a poor choice for audio or video, but HTML and images, go for it.
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Apparently I replied but didn't post it. While I have a few things on github, most of my things are on gitlab. I don't really have any media. Just some documents, some miscellanea like ROMs ripped from a mysterious old Apple floppy controller, and some libraries and ports of things.
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Anyone here using Office/Microsoft 365 Family? It says up to 6 persons can use it. It also mentions a personalized email address. What does that mean? One for the subscription, or one per person (up to 6) using that subscription? They're sure being as vague as can be about this. I'm looking to migrate away from GApps Gmail, and I have multiple email addresses on the domain. I figured I'd use aliases, but they don't even allow these on O365 Personal/Family.
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Okay so my fiancee is starting a screen printing business and initially just needs a relatively simple site that will provide business information and examples of previous jobs/designs. She already has a domain registered but that's it so far and none of us know a drat thing about web design or hosting. We need a one stop shop that will allow us to design a webpage and let them handle the rest for the most part. We'll be starting out very basic but want the ability to scale up with the service if we ever end up needing more advanced site tools/plugins/whatever as well as e-commerce if we expand beyond local poo poo. Any recommendations besides Wordpress or are they pretty much the best place for this situation?
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squarespace probably, i would not self host wordpress or any cart-related wordpress stuff if both of you have absolutely no clue about it or you're going to end up either magecarted or compromised and sending spam
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Black Sunshine posted:Okay so my fiancee is starting a screen printing business and initially just needs a relatively simple site that will provide business information and examples of previous jobs/designs. She already has a domain registered but that's it so far and none of us know a drat thing about web design or hosting. You should not code or host an ecommerce + marketing site. I build web app daily and for your use case even I wouldn't bother. I'd simply compare the following places to see which one best fit my needs: Webflow, Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, Weebly I'd likely not touch or consider Wordpress.
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I have been using a @gmail.com address since it was an invite-only beta for all my personal stuff, but I'm beginning to feel like maybe it's a good idea to take steps to take control and since I recently got a really good domain and have a website pretty close to where I want it, to do a full on changeover to a custom email to have more independence and also because the @gmail.com is so easily guessable that I get, like, other people's bank statements who share my name. I have a legacy Free GSuite account for another domain I own, that I use for my business-y stuff, but it's a much less cool domain and apparently you can't change the domain on legacy free accounts. I currently use Spark as my mail client on macOS and iOS, and I'm pretty happy with it. Ideally I'd like something with EAS so I get them emails really fast. So I've been looking into my options. It looks like they're:
I've tried hey.com and while I really dig the workflows and the general vibe it seems very underbaked, so I'm not going to wait for them to launch their custom domain support. Would love some insight here. I have friends in the IT support biz who swear by 365 but I dunno, Microsoft? And pretty much every business I interact with uses GSuites, but I dunno, Google?
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Zoho is an option with a free tier and they seem to have EAS support, although I’m not clear on whether that’s available without paying.
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When I feel like messing with my email again I'm planning to move to Migadu.com
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chaosbreather posted:I have a legacy Free GSuite account for another domain I own, that I use for my business-y stuff, but it's a much less cool domain and apparently you can't change the domain on legacy free accounts. I have one aswell, and while you cant change the domain, I /think/ you can add another as an alias or subdomain or something along though lines. Could be an option? e: I didnt click through it to see if it works, but just looked at my admin panel and the option is definitely still there "Add a domain alias Automatically create an alias for every user in the primary domain, giving them an alternate email address at a domain name you own." MeKeV fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Popping in here for the first time to say: Wordpress sucks! Checked my dad's site for the first time in a year … it was not mobile responsive. Now I'm migrating all my dad's neglected domains to IONOS and will use their integrated website templates. https://www.websitetooltester.com/en/reviews/1and1-mywebsite-review/ There was one Wordpress site that some designer made and I don't know how but all the text on index.html is embedded inside layout blocks and I can't edit it. It broke completely after transfer but customer service unfucked it somehow. I am eager to replace it with something functional and professional.
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Wordpress has absolutely nothing to do with that, and IONOS as a host is legendarily even worse (1and1 rebrand)
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Agreed, not a Wordpress issue and avoid any EIG brand or 1and1, they're all terrible! Also, Wordpress is fantastic if you don't use lovely plugins and themes that cause it to be slow and vulnerable to exploits. Look for good hosting, arguably any host that uses ApisCP under the hood will be much more secure than ANY cPanel based host. Lithium Hosting and Hostineer fit that description  I personally use Wordpress on a handful of websites, they work amazingly well and have never once had a security issue. I also keep them updated, secure the wp-content folder and don't use lovely plugins.
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Also, the site you linked is an affiliate scheme """"review"""" site. The "big brands" (EIG, 1&1, etc) pay the most commission per sale. It really isn't Wordpress's fault, you can pick a template that is mobile or not, you can secure it or not, the problem is that it's on you to keep it updated now if you're using a traditional shared host.
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Remember, all hosts have similar operating costs. The difference in what they charge you and what they pay out to affiliates is what they have left over to pay their employees and invest back into their business. Affiliate-heavy companies charging attractive prices are either going to make up the money by nickel and diming you or they’ll run a skeleton crew that cannot support you nor their infrastructure. Also 1&1 is notorious about forwarding bills off to collections.
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Well, heck! I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm migrating hosts. "lovely plugins and themes" sounds exactly right. x___x
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MeKeV posted:I have one aswell, and while you cant change the domain, I /think/ you can add another as an alias or subdomain or something along though lines. Could be an option? Yeah I figured this one out. For anyone else in this predicament the real secret here is you can add an email alias right into gmail, and then set that as the default. The only bummer is that the google account stays as the old domain but once you have the default email set, no-one will even know and it will totally feel like that's the real email address. I set it up that way in Spark and everything was great. Then I went hog-wild, changing every single internet account (~1200!) over to the new one. It took some time but it feels very fresh now. Now if I want to change to something else, maybe Fastmail, or maybe Hey if it gets good at some point, then its very easy for me to change now.
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Can anyone recommend an eco-friendly VPS? Are there any that are actually carbon-neutral, as opposed to just carbon-offset?
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NuclearEagleFox!!! posted:Can anyone recommend an eco-friendly VPS? Are there any that are actually carbon-neutral, as opposed to just carbon-offset? Do you care about location? The "real" non-PR-bullshit eco friendly ones may not be near you due to for example electricity generation. 1984.is is $5/m and is all renewable energy and geothermal. It's in Iceland. They're great, and also embrace F/OSS significantly.
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Biowarfare posted:Do you care about location? The "real" non-PR-bullshit eco friendly ones may not be near you due to for example electricity generation. I don't really know, what are the downsides to a foreign host? I'm in the US.
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NuclearEagleFox!!! posted:I don't really know, what are the downsides to a foreign host? I'm in the US. Latency, laws, payment methods (and your card being flagged or suspended), etc.
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