Blogs

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 my blog itself - or blog about the process of doing so. But, a quick update on …

Update on my Grav blog …

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 didn’t etc. So, fast forward several months, how has it been? The Good At …

Enabling Certificate …

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 answered Yes, Yes and No, and you’re using Cloudflare, you can fix that at …

When Bugs and Mistakes …

A few weeks ago I commented on a request from Jack Tracey for speakers at the Open Mic Night of the August 2019 Sussex Azure User Group - with the idea being to share your stories of mistakes you’ve made that have led to P1 incidents. I flippantly said I had plenty of stories but …

Create your own Dynamic …

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 not a static IP, it can of course change - so we want to be able to keep the …

Create your own Dynamic …

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 you how you can use Azure DNS to provide a Dynamic DNS capability at …