Internet & Web
How the web works for the people using it: browsers, domains, hosting and online services.
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…
hmmmm ok simple goal: exmaple.com and www.example.com should both show my site on a CDN 😤 reality: teh apex redirects to an ad page. i tried adding the CNAME at the root anyway, a free DNS provider threw an error. i tried a URL forward but that seems to…
ugh. my site has been running fine for months on Nginx + PHP FPM 😅 now it falls over every few hours at random and all visitors get this: Restarting everything brings it back, until it doesnt :) Im not a full time sysadmin, i set this up from a tutorial and…
long time lurker first post lol my site has been running fine for months on Caddy proxying to a Python API... now it falls over only during traffic spikes and all visitors get this: restarting everything brings it back, until it doesnt. im not a full time…
Genuine question from someone whos been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS. For a side project, is using the hosts nameservers actually worth it? 😅 i hear argmuents about uptime, speed, control and lock in, but i cant tell which…
yesterday i finsihed turning on DNSSEC for our shops new .com. felt proud of myself. this mroning i opened the site and got this: it says teh servers IP address could not be found, DNS PROBE FINISHED NXDOMAIN. same thing on the office network. the registrar…
im literally losing my mind here i thought turning on HTTPS would be a five minute job 😤 Instead a forum install looks broken: 'Not secure' in the address bar. In the console there are messages about mixed content and an embedded video being blocked 🤷 The…
I'm building a React app on localhost:5173 and trying to fetch data from a payment provider's API. postman returns teh data perfectly. the browser gives me this: The console says teh request has been blocked by CORS policy, no Access Control Allow Origin…
Not my first domain, but this one has me stumped 🔥 After switching nameservers, the clients .io domain stopepd resolving completely. the zone at my DNS porvider has the A record, the www recrod, everything. online checkers from different locations disagree…
ok so client called me upset because their browser shows console errors about blocekd content on our online shop since the HTTPS switch. i checked quickly and an embedded video are requested with http:// URLs. some come from the database content, some i…
Every hosting comparison I find is either an affiliate list or someones ten year old opinion. So Im asking real people: is a PaaS with git deploys a reasonable choice for a client site with modest traffic? What breaks first, what costs more than expected,…
hmmmm ok I've followed three different guides and I'm more confused than before. Messages from the newsletter tool keep getting flagged by Gmail. Our DNS panel has a TXT record for SPF, another one someone added later, plus a DMARC record copied from a blog…
ive been using Chrome for a machine with 8 GB of RAM for a while now, and lately I keep wondering whether Im just using it out of habit. every few months someone tells me another browser is faster, more private, or better for my exact situtaion. im not…
Quick one, hopefully. After some server cahnges last week, our staging server shows SEC ERROR EXPIRED CERTIFICATE: The certificate files on teh server look recent, but the browser seems to see something else. Could it be serving the wrong certificate? 👍 We…
woke up to monitoring alerts and this lovely page on every URL: its a Docker Compose stack behind Nginx, and it seems to happen whenever someone uploads a big file... the error log mentions the upstream a lot but Im not sure if thats the cause or just a…
im literally losing my mind here im a school IT volunteer, and our tool list keeps growing while the budget doesnt. Right now Im looking at uptime monitoring, which is currently a patchwork of free accounts and spreadsheets. There are dozens of options and…
im literally losing my mind here getting 502 Bad Gateway right after every deploy, and its starting to cost us orders. The setup is Apache proxying to Gunicorn on a small VPS. CPU graphs look normal, disk isnt full. The proxy itself is clearly alive because…
help!! okay, this is driving me up the wall, brave has been my main browser for years and suddenly tabs just crash. it started with Google Docs and now its spreading to other heavy pages. the code is STATUS ACCESS VIOLATION, sometimes several tabs go down…
woke up to monitoring alerts and this lovely page on every URL: it's Apache proxying to Gunicorn, and it seems to happen only during traffic spikes. the error log mentions teh upstream a lot but i'm not suree if that's the cause or just a symptom. i want to…
long time lurker first post lol i type my username and password into our tickeitng system, it accepts them, flashes for a sceond, and sends me into a too many redirects error. Over and over. this is Edge on my main computer 🤦 on my phone it works instantly,…
finally moved a static portfolio to HTTPS... certificate installed, the host says its valid, teh checker says its valid... but visitors see a half styled page. i think it has to do with teh stylesheet still loading over plain http, but i have no idea where…
ok so im setting up DNS for a side project and keep going back and forth on running my own nameservers lol some ppl say its the obvious best practice, others say it adds complexity for no real gain. ive had one bad experience in the past where a host held my…
so annoyed rn moved my site to a website builder this weekend, www.mydomain loads perfectly... but type the domain without www and it redirects to an ad page. The hosts docs say to add a CNAME for the root domain, but my hosts zone editor refuses and says a…
