Internet & Web
How the web works for the people using it: browsers, domains, hosting and online services.
im literally losing my mind here genuine question from someone who's been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS. For an onilne shop, is running my own nameservers actually worth it? i hear arguments about uptime, speed, control and lock…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts question for the group: how do you handle form builders? As a school IT volunteer, i cant justify enterprise prices, but Ive been burned by free tools that disappeared or changed their terms. Is self hosting worth teh…
so i was just trying to check my work emails and suddenly every single site i try to load just gives me this weird error. i dont even know where to start cuz i havent changed anything on my end. i tried restarting my router and even toggled my wifi off and…
so i was messing around with some dnssec records on my production domain trying to haredn teh security a bit, and suddenly my site just... vanished from the web. it is literally returning an NXDOMAIN or a validation error depending on which resolver i check.…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts A few observations. say u have a domain that sends mail from two places: a hosted mailbox service and a web app using a transactional email API. deliverability is poor. Theres…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts from experience: Im reconsidering how i store passwords. Right now i use a hosted password manaegr, but Ive been running a home server for a while and self hosting a compatible…
I type my username and passowrd into our ticketing sysetm, it accepts them, flashes for a second, and sends me to the home page as if I never logged in. Over and over. this is Chrome on my main computer.. 😤 on my phone it works instantly, same account... i…
soooo i just updated my a records for my gaming site and now everything is just crashing. i keep getting this weird error on my browser and im literally panicking cuz im supposed to go live tonight!! i tried flushing my dns and even restarted the router but…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts strange one: on my desktop teh site is fine. On an old laptop someone lent me, every HTTPS site including mine shows this: So is my certificate broken or is the laptop broken? 😤 i genuinely cant tell anymore.
Deployed my first real project to a fresh VPS today. On the server itself, curl localhost:8443 returns my page. from my laptop, the brwoser just says: ERR CONNECTION REFUSED. i opened the port in the firewall, i think. i restarted the app twice, i'm at the…
guys pls help moved my site to a website builder this weekend. www.mydomain loads perfectly. but type teh domain without www and it shows a parked page. the host's docs say to add a CNAME for the root domain, but a budget registrar refuses and says a CNAME…
deployed my first real project to a new container host today. on teh server itself, curl localhost:8080 returns my page. From my laptop, the browser just says: ERR CONNECTION REFUSED, i opened the port in the firewall, i think, i restarted the app twice...…
Every time i open a news sites video player, videos refuse to load xD i refreshed, celared cache, rebooted. My colleague on teh same network opens teh exact same page and it works perfectly. The only difference i can think of is that i have a bunch of…
Small experiment: i moved everything over to Vivaldi for web development. Bookmarks, passwords, extensions, the lot. Some things were better than i expected, some things drove me nuts witihn a day. Before i decide whether to stay, Im curious what the rest of…
ok weird one panic mode. the client's .io domain is our main sales channel and since renewing it a day late nobody can reach it. On my phone on Wi Fi it shows NXDOMAIN, on my phone using mobile data it sometimes loads. I flushed DNS on my computer, nothing…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts fun problem! i'm deploying a site to a hosting platform that tells me to cretae a CNAME pointing to something like myproject.platform.example, that works fine for www, but my DNS provider refuses to create a CNAME on the…
ok so im trying to cut down on how much stuff i have installed. A few of teh tools i use (chat, notes, a music player) offer both a desktop app and a web version that can be "installed" from the browser as a PWA. the…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts hi! :D say you do research heavy work: docs, issue trackers, a couple of dashboards, plus whatever rabbit hole you fell into this afternoon... tabs pile up fast. ive tried vertical…
hmmmm ok say youre migrating a site and u update teh A record, but half ur users keep hitting the old box for hours. the record at the provider is definately correct. ive duoble checked teh record in the providers…
say u have a web app that renders perfectly in an incognito/private window but in teh regular profile it hangs on a spinner forever, no error page, just nothing, the user realy doesn't want to lose their saved…
ok so say youve outgrown shared hosting because you need things like cron jobs that run longer than a few minutes, a custom runtime, or root access. the VPS route looks cheap on paper. im fine on a command line, but…
ok so day two of fighting CORS. a static site on a CDN calls our own Express backend, and every request dies with a CORS error. i've tried adding headers to my fetch call, setting mode to no cors, and installing a browser extension that disables CORS. The…
guys pls help hi! I just pointed my domain at a new host. on my phone over mobile data the site loads fine. on my laptop: I have a client demo in an hour and I cant even open my own site on teh machine Im presenting from. is the domain broken or is it just…
ok weird one every hosting comparison i find is either an affiliate list or someone's ten year old opinion. So i'm asking real people: is managed WordPress hosting a reasonable choice for a hobby forum? What breaks first, what costs more than expected, and…
Customer emailed us a screenshot this morning, the client's landing page now shows this to everyone: The error says SEC ERROR EXPIRED CERTIFICATE 😭 i set up Certbot months ago exactly so this would never happen. No warning emails, no alerts, nothing. i need…
