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Re:IBM's Asshole Test by johnpublic on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:40PM (#31266195)
Pity my blog died so quickly! Can anyone recommend a more robust host? Ideally one with low set up effort.
Re:IBM's Asshole Test by throwanem on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:44PM (#31266251)
Sticking Cloudflare's free-tier CDN in front of your existing blog will probably help a lot. If nothing else, it'll make a stopgap while you're investigating alternatives.
Re:IBM's Asshole Test by mrmattyboy on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:47PM (#31266280)
Agreed!

Though, just a note that if you use them, you need to use them as your nameservers for your domain (the whole domain) (at least for the free tier)

... maybe doesn't matter for most people, but something that's put me off massively :D

Re:IBM's Asshole Test by IggleSniggle on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:53PM (#31266924)
I am certain this is not true, as I only use them for a subdomain CDN for hosting my static site, and don’t use them for any of my other dynamic sites that are on the same parent domain.

Maybe what you say was true at one point. I only set up a static site and used Cloudflare to front it within the last couple of months.

Re:IBM's Asshole Test by mrmattyboy on Thursday May 05, 2022 @04:03AM (#31270793)
Are you using the free version?

When I set it up a couple of years ago, it was a hard requirement and looking at their features, it still seems to be the case: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#overview (under 'Custom Nameservers')

And, as per (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36001742119... and https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/partial-se...), they state that 'partial DNS' (i.e. using a CNAME to point to them) is only supported by Business and Enterprise plans.

Some other people asking this question: * https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/43719/is-it-p... * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18422998/cloudflare-or-i...

When I tested a while back, I couldn't setup a subdomain in cloudflare, it only allowed me to setup the root domain. When I did this and just updated the NS records for the subdomain to point to cloudflare, their validation of the nameserver change never passed (since I only set NS records on the subdomain level).

I'm not trying to argue for arguing sake, just trying to show why I thought/said what I originally said :)

Honestly, if this does now work, or there's a way around it, I'll be really happy as I could switch a couple of subdomains to them :D

Re:IBM's Asshole Test by gog on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:53PM (#31266346)
Pretty sure that is not true.
Re:IBM's Asshole Test by 867-5309 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:06PM (#31266471)
it's pretty much step one of signing up with cloudlare - how else are they going to control visitors?
Re:IBM's Asshole Test by gog on Thursday May 05, 2022 @03:42AM (#31270676)
We had one of the subdomains protected with CF DDOS protection and we only had to setup a CNAME record on our own DNS that pointed to their servers.
Re:IBM's Asshole Test by jchw on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:43PM (#31266236)
Fly.io can host instances of whatever (any kind of Docker container, so Ghost and Wordpress aren’t hard) and has a good free tier. You can also use Netlify or GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages for free static hosting, if you don’t need anything special. Wordpress.com is pretty low effort. I think all of these can do custom domains in their free tier.
Re:IBM's Asshole Test by evolve2k on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:51PM (#31266317)
I’m a big fan of Netlify and Gifhub pages, finding 11ty was a huge win: https://www.11ty.dev/

Netlify offer a version of 11ty that includes a hosted CMS editing tool and it’s all hosted for free for basic access.

Use this as the Netlify CMS optimised version of 11ty as your starter: https://www.netlifycms.org/

Re:IBM's Asshole Test by mdavidn on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:02PM (#31266433)
You can host a static site out of an S3 bucket.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Websit...

Re:IBM's Asshole Test by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:42PM (#31266216)
wordpress.com? i mean, that's their core business, right?