Internet & Web
How the web works for the people using it: browsers, domains, hosting and online services.
im literally losing my mind here this is probably obvious to someone, not to me. I moved my app to a fresh VPS and now nobody can reach it on port 8080. it worked on my old machine with the same config. the only difference I can see is the new server has a…
Something changed and I cant figure out what. Last week my web hosts control panel worked fine in Brave. Today every login attempt ends right back to the sign in page. I didnt change my password, and teh site doesnt show any error message at all. I did tweak…
well, this is embarrassing. our booking site is serving a certificate error and i only found out when i tried to log in myself. NET::ERR CERT COMMON NAME INVALID. i'm using the host's free SSL toggle. i tried running a renewal manually and it either says…
genuine question from someone whos been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS 😂 for a small business site, is using teh hosts nameesrvers actually worth it? 🤷 i hear arguments about uptime, speed, control and lock in, but i cant tell…
hmmmm ok genuine question from someone whos been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS. for an online shop, is splitting registrar and DNS provider actually worth it?? i hear arguments about uptime, speed, control and lock in, but i…
this is prob obvious to somenoe, not to me. i moved my app to a new container host and now nobody can reach it on port 3000. it worked on my old machine with teh same config... the only difference I can see is the new server has a different OS version and…
hmmmm ok getting 502 Bad Gateway every few hours at random, and its starting to cost us orders. The setup is Nginx in front of a Node app on a small VPS 😅 CPU graphs look normal, disk isnt full. The proxy itself is clearly alive cuz it serves teh error…
I'm building a static site on a CDN and trying to fetch data from a form hnadling service. postman returns the data perfectly. the browser gives me this: the console says the request has been blocked by CORS policy, no Access Control Allow Origin header is…
ok so day two of fighting CORS. a browser extension popup 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…
help!! every hosting comparison i find is either an affiliate list or someones ten year old opinion. So Im asking real people: is a cheap VPS a reasonable choice for an agency running 30 sites?? What breaks first, what costs more than expected, and what…
Ive been at this for hours, my cloud VM, app running, logs say its listening on port 8443, but every outside request gets refused. Theres the OS firewall, the providers network firewall, and my router (or whatever is in between), and Im not sure which one i…
ok so every hosting comparison i find is either an affiliate list or someones ten year old opinion. So Im asking real people: is a serverless platform a reasonable choice for my first SaaS? What breaks first, what costs more than expected, and what would u…
Ive followed three different guides and Im more confused than before. Messages from password reset emails keep getting flagged by Outlook.com. our DNS panel has a TXT record for SPF, another one someone added later, plus a DMARC record copied from a blog…
help!! question for teh group: how do u hadnle transactional email?? as a nonprofit with no budget, I cant justify enterprise prices, but Ive been burned by free tools that disappeared or changed their terms, is self hosting worth the maintenance, or is a…
ok weird one not my first domain, but this one has me stumped. After turning on DNSSEC, teh client's .io domain stopped reoslving completely. the zone at my DNS provider has the A record, teh www record, everything. online checkers from different locations…
im literally losing my mind here deployed my first real porject to a home server behind my router today. on the server itself, curl localhost:8080 returns my page. From my laptop, the browser just says: ERR CONNECTION REFUSED. I opened the port in the…
hmmmm ok yesterday i finished turning on DNSSEC for teh clients .io domain. felt proud of myslef. this morning i opened teh site and got this: It says the sevrers IP address could not be found, DNS PROBE FINISHED NXDOMAIN. Same thing on every device at home…
ok weird one we just realized that my new business mailbox has been landing in spam for who knows how long. A customer on iCloud Mail mentioned it casually and my stomach dropped. i went into our DNS and there is an SPF record, and i think DKIM was set up…
ok weird one okay, this is driving me up the wall. vivaldi has been my main browser for years and suddenly tabs just crash. it started with YouTube and now its spreading to other heavy pages. the code is STATUS STACK BUFFER OVERRUN, sometimes several tabs go…
im literally losing my mind here i thought turning on HTTPS would be a five minute job. instead a Laravel app looks broken: a padlock with a warning triangle. In the console there are messages about mixed content and the main scrpit being blocked. The…
help!! day two of fihgting CORS, a React app on localhost:5173 calls a form handling service, and every reqeust dies with a CORS error. ive tried adding headers to my fetch call, setting mode to no cors, and installing a browser extension that disables CORS.…
we just realized that invoice emails from teh shop has been landing in spam for who knows how long. A customer on Outlook.com mentioned it casually and my stomach dropped. I went into our DNS and there is an SPF record, and I think DKIM was set up when we…
question for the group: how do u handle team password sharing? as a school IT volunteer, i can't justify enterprise prices, but i've been burned by free tools that disappeared or changed their terms. is self hosting worth teh maintenance, or is a small…
Question for the group: how do you handle form builders? As a two person agency, I cant justify enterprise prices, but Ive been burned by free tools that disappeared or changed their terms. Is self hosting worth the maintenance, or is a small subscription…
im literally losing my mind here client called me upset because their browser shows console errors about blocked content on my WordPress blog since the HTTPS switch. I checked quickly and the stylesheet are requested with http:// URLs. Some come from teh…
