Dns

The blog you’re reading just moved house. Same content, same build, the same Cloudflare Pages underneath — but the address on the door changed from billalrehmani.pages.dev to a domain that’s actually mine: billsblog.dev. Why bother — it already worked billalrehmani.pages.dev was fine. It served over HTTPS, it was fast, it was free. But pages.dev is Cloudflare’s namespace, not mine. For a portfolio I link from LinkedIn and want people to remember, “billalrehmani-dot-pages-dot-dev” is a mouthful and a borrowed address. Owning the domain means owning the identity — and, as it turned out, a bit more control over the security posture too. ...

This is a small home network — one router, a handful of devices. The point wasn’t complexity; it was applying the same discipline you would to a small office or lab environment. Treated that way, it doubles as practical study for Network+ and Security+. The router is an Arcadyan HWG2025 — the NBN-issued unit, Wi-Fi 7 with MLO, around 500 Mb down. An ISP router doesn’t give you much room to move, but it gives you enough to do this properly. ...