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How to change Letsencrypt certbot HTTP-01 challenge to DNS-01 challenge for Cloudflare?
Why switch from HTTP-01 challenge to DNS-01 challenge? I needed to change the challenge to fix a know issue while proxying the website via Cloudflare as part of my blog improvements.
Please refer the link above for more details, if you are in a hurry here’s the gist about the issue.
When you use Cloudflare to proxy the website and use Letsencrypt for generating the certificates, the certbot by default will use http-01 challenege and it will fail because of the IP difference between your Cloudflare proxied IP and the actual host machine IP.
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How I made my blog Faster, Cheaper & Secure?
Little background If you had visited my blog a few weeks back, it must have looked different, loaded slowly and there was a ton of crappy ads and it was having only basic security features.
Old setup Before this transition, the blog was using a Self-hosted version of Wordpress on a 10 USD/month Digital Ocean droplet (2GB RAM, 1 CPU, 50GB SSD disk) served via an Apache server serving over https using free TLS (or as people generally say, SSL) certificates provided by LetsEncrypt.
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Back to blogging after more than a year - Updates so far
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged however I’ve kept the domain & hosting alive with the hope that someday I’ll get back to it and finally here I’m.
Updates A lot has happened in the meantime, my entrepreneurship journey had to take a little back seat and I’ve joined a startup and now working as a Technical product manager where I get to build some amazing things and meet some awesome people.
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AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS CloudWatch & CWAgent in Ubuntu
In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time. Assumption: This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.
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Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan
Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan India - China Relations overview India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.
China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc.
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