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Relocate to a new domain registrar

In the spring of this year I changed my domain registrar. Initially I followed the recommendation from friends and went to United Domains (UD or ud from here on) and bought myself kepler.international as well as kepler.one there. In the beginning I was quite pleased with the offer but there have been a few problems. To set the DKIM signing keys from Fastmail was not the easiest since UD does not allow the creation of domains with a leading underscore. The support there is quick and very friendly. After all I just had to write an email with the domain and the values and the record has been …

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Bots do not like modern ssh configurations

In the course of my DNS move and the possibility of SSHFP records as well as my new Linux laptop, I have been dealing a bit with security, encryption and especially hardening again. Measures like tinkering with the cipher suites of a webserver is now relative common and with the right tools easy to achieve and to test. But other things also have cipher suites and various algorithms that contribute to security and confi…

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I feel offended

I regularly check to see if there are any errors on my website and try to fix them. This includes page access errors. If Google can not find certain pages anymore that can be quite deadly for all the SEO stuff. It is just the links to the CSS files that have fallen out of the cache most of the time and are being fetched again. This results in access errors, which are not too worrying.

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Email with own and new top-level-domain

Half a year ago I finaly got a fitting email provider for my domain. Its not easy to find a reasonably priced provider for a custom domains. After I found out that my registrant only offers their 1GB shared I canceled this offer quickly. That was not viable since I wanted to provide for my family at the same time. As I continued my search the name Fastmail popped up some time. Their offer and their work looked good to me and after talking with Kilian I gave it a try. I have t…

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