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Update on my Grav blog experiment in Azure
23 Nov 2019 · 7 min read · grav · hugo

Update on my Grav blog experiment in Azure

Image by John Salvino on Unsplash From the beginning, the intention was to minimise the cost outlay, whilst still using and learning about Azure and I promised to keep you up to date on my experience, what worked, what …

Enabling Certificate Transparency Monitoring for your Cloudflare domains
5 Sep 2019 · 4 min read · cloudflare · certificate

Enabling Certificate Transparency Monitoring for your Cloudflare domains

Image by Alexandre Debiève on Unsplash Got a website? Secured with HTTPS and an SSL certificate? You’d know if someone tried to register their own certificate for your domain and masquerade as you, right? If you …

31 Aug 2019 · 2 min read · IT · talks

When Bugs and Mistakes Attack - Sussex Azure User Group 29th August 2019

Remote Talk I gave at SAUG

Create your own Dynamic DNS service using Azure DNS - part 2
26 Aug 2019 · 10 min read · azure · azure-dns

Create your own Dynamic DNS service using Azure DNS - part 2

Image by AbsolutVision on Unsplash In my last post, we created a DNS zone and added a record pointing back to the public IP address of my home broadband connection. That’s all well and good, but since it’s …

Create your own Dynamic DNS service using Azure DNS - part 1
14 Aug 2019 · 5 min read · azure · azure-dns

Create your own Dynamic DNS service using Azure DNS - part 1

Image by AbsolutVision on Unsplash The more that I use Azure cloud services, the more I think of ways to use them, either to do something new, or to replace some process or service I already use. Today, I’ll show …

How To : Automatically delete old files in Google Drive
7 Aug 2019 · 6 min read · google-apps · google-drive

How To : Automatically delete old files in Google Drive

Image by Geralt on Pixabay Although all of my posts have been Azure related thus far, I did say back at the start that I may blog about other tech aspects that interest me or that I think others might find useful - and …