This is a short article on the use of /etc/hosts – often referred to by our engineers as an edit, entry, or change to your “etcetera hosts” file. It is the simplest, most reliable, long lived solution to site previewing. The /etc/hosts file overrides DNS lookups. As such the world can look up your website… Keep Reading
Inundated by calls or emails after you have registered a domain? You are not alone – it happens to us too, just after the first few and the wonder of modern phones and mail filters you get a healthy block list and they disappear into the ether. Have you ever wondered how or why this… Keep Reading
All too often we take this protocol for granted. Sure signposts in a field works just fine – but it pays to understand a little more about what is going on here. A colleague (Alex) saw this on Imgur (alas without credit… and now without all the comments) – and it seemed far, FAR too… Keep Reading
Ever wondered how you deal with long DKIM records? Because if you think you can just stick that bad boy in a text field, chances are that is going to fail. Horribly. There is an RFC (Request for Comments – or internet adopted standard) that says that TXT fields within a DNS zone need to… Keep Reading
“What should my SPF record be if I have services with Hosting UK, either shared hosting or standard email such as Silver and I am not having email delivered by any third parties?” Well I am very glad you asked you have come to the right place. Assuming that you are happy with the broad… Keep Reading
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