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Hugo Costs - An Update
15 Dec 2019 · 2 min read · grav · hugo

Hugo Costs - An Update

Photo by Michael Longmire on Unsplash In my last post - I discussed my pending move of one of my websites from Grav on Azure WebApps to Hugo in Azure Storage Static Websites to optimise my costs. I’ve yet to update …

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 …