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In the past, hosting a website from your own home required a fair amount of technical know-how and came with significant security risks. Traditional setups involved several key steps: Configuring your home router to forward a port to your internal server. Ensuring you had a static IP address. Purchasing and installing an SSL certificate for secure HTTPS access. While effective, this approach exposed your home network to the internet. Opening ports on your router made your physical location traceable and increased the risk of cyberattacks. A Safer, Simpler Way: Cloudflare Zero Trust Cloudflare Zero Trust has transformed how individuals can host services from their homesRead More →

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1. Avoid Relying Solely on Email for Alerts Email is not a reliable alerting mechanism. Alerts can be delayed, filtered as spam, or ignored due to cluttered inboxes. From a user experience perspective, email-based alerts are often messy and ineffective. Recommendation: Use a dedicated alerting app or platform that supports webhook integrations. Azure and most modern monitoring tools offer this functionality. These solutions provide more reliable and timely alerting mechanisms. 2. Be Selective and Strategic with Monitors Not all systems or services require immediate alerts. It’s important to evaluate the criticality of each component before creating alerts. Example: If a non-business-critical website goes offline atRead More →