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Say everything, blogs are everywhere

Our title is itself a book's and the first sentence, see that after the comma, is in its front flap by journalist Scott Rosenberg. Let's take some more words from it and share here. Blogging brought the Web's native character into focus---convivial, expressive, democratic. Bloggers have become the curators of our collective experience, testing out their ideas in front of a crowd and linking people in ways that broadcasts can't match. Blogs have created a new kind of public sphere--one in which we can think out loud together. The preceding paragraph is all in the book flap, front and back. It is the simplest answer if somebody is asking what a blog is, then and now. Although we see that as the magnanimous purpose of a blog which is really enticing and challenging. It adds choices and rooms for both sources and audiences without the regular prescriptive cadence.  What's common is the responsibility. Whether or not we do it via blog, print and online news, and whoever
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What to watch out for when DNS moves to Cloudflare

Cloudflare has an excellent DNS service offered free and available to all its plans.

When moving your DNS service, you'd notice upon adding your domain name or it's called websites with the "Add a site" button in Cloudflare dashboard, records are automatically drawn or pulled in which enables you to verify if everything is there.

For years this particular function has been flawless and it never disappoint.

What you need to do is make sure to disable every proxy enabled in each records before finally changing your name servers with your domain name registrar. The switch can happen immediately leaving the function of your registrar's DNS the moment you changed and applied the name servers provided by Cloudflare to finally use its DNS service. Most of the time, services and applications breaks with Cloudflare's proxy, enabled by default, which means they will be down due mostly to your DNS configuration. Not necessarily the services and applications involved as well as attached. Just make sure every service that your DNS facilitates are working.

If you have all that covered, your switch will be seamless and not a stakeholder will notice it.

Next to that is apply every security measures available there including DNSSEC and more. Unused URL including root or apex domain and even the default www can be easily redirected to any subdomain within the same domain name, or even a different domain name which you will have to consider every business reasoning and practicality of such decision before you do it. No more broken and dead links caused mainly by DNS capability.

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