Maintenance on James Montgomery

Migrating to Cloudflare Pages

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

TL; DR

I recently decided to evaluate Cloudflare as a static site hosting provider. This post covers my findings and migration from AWS Amplify.

Amplify Overview

The Amplify configuration is unchanged from the previous migration post. The website is statically generated content built with Hugo (noted as Hugo assets in the diagram). Cloudflare provides a proxy to save on bandwidth and provide a CDN function.

Besides providing hosting for ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk, Amplify provides several redirects.

Migrating site to AWS

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

TL; DR

Some time ago, I decided to multi-cloud my site. I’ve recently decided to revert to a single cloud hosting provider. I’m taking the opportunity to experience Amplify static hosting for this site.

Challenges with the previous configuration

Multiple hosting locations meant multiple build processes.

In effect, the site was built, deployed (to Firebase) then rebuilt and redeployed (to AWS). Admittedly, the latter was rarely an overhead as the AWS Amplify CI/CD workflow was triggered upon commit to the master branch on CodeCommit.

Domain migration and enabling DNSSEC

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

TL; DR

The renewal date on my .co.uk domain was nearing. I decided to make a change from 123-reg to iwantmyname. After migration, I captured the process to enable DNSSEC when using Cloudflare for DNS. For those thinking of a similar migration, I have also documented my experience of moving to iwantmyname.

.co.uk domain registrar migration to iwantmyname

I had used iwantmyname previously and so benefitted from having an account already. After sign-in/signup the overview page has a link to allow a domain transfer to start: