GitHub Pages on Custom Domains required github.io instead of github.com DNS

My personal homepage https://www.vorburger.ch is hosted on the GitHub Pages Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Tonight while I was having dinner, the uptime monitoring I set up for it using Cronitor.io (great product!) started firing 🚨 alerts - homepage down!

After poking around my domain registrar, DNS server and GitHub, I noticed, somewhat by chance, that I have been, since a very long time, using a CNAME of vorburger.github.com for www.vorburger.ch. This has been working since mid-2012, 12+ years!

Infomaniak.com Swiss Cloud Provider Technical Support for SMTP problem

One fine day, when I am retired, and will have more time at hand to “have fun” than I do these days, I’ll switch my personal email to being fully decentralized self-hosting.

But these days fully running your own MTA properly requires more time than I personally am currently willing to give it.

In the meantime, I run my personal email in an admittedly somewhat weird set-up, like this:

The Need for Speed (Part #1)

The Past

For the past 20 years, Swisscom was my ISP at home, and I had a (now) Swisscom blue Internet L subscription for Residential Customers.

The bandwidth that gave me for the last couple of years was 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps). One day when I logged in to my ISP to pay a bill, there was a message:

“Technology upgrade: With a change to the new fiber optic standard, you can achieve a speed of up to 10 Gbit/s without a monthly fee and extra cost.”