Cheering on Facebook is cheering against your own interests.
Companies need to learn that they play in and extract resources from our sandbox.
If they want to continue to play in our sandbox, they need to play by our rules. They need to act in a socially responsible way. There are even laws about corporate governance pertaining to this.
You don't have to agree with Canada's laws (I don't), but you do need to recognise that they are their laws. Being hostile like this is a good way to make enemies.
I have a feeling this is temporary to do a server upgrade on the VPS which might run other stuff too. Doesn't make sense to go through all that effort to hide your IP and keep port 80 on pfsense blocked just to open it all up anyway.
> So I added a second A record in CloudFlare for the blog to my home address, and again utilized the CloudFlare Proxy Services.
Is cloudflare detecting downtime via their proxy or something? I don't understand how you can pull the plug and have your VPS route not eventually fall over once cf's cache invalidates. Do browsers try both if one server fails?
Pretty hard. There is no centralized book registry.
All you need to publish a book is a valid ISBN10/EAN13. You can buy those online in bulk. And technically you don't need one, but generally if you want to sell it enmasse you want one.
Given its owned by Amazon you'd think they'd limit it to known ASINs but then I guess they can't account for rare or old books that predate the isbn system.
I dunno what's worse, the pointless commentary, needless gatekeeping, the superfluous white knighting or the fact we're getting upvotes for all this nonsense.