Ezra Harris

Tag: Short Read

  • Setup Cloudflare DNS Proxy for Server

    Recently when setting my WordPress site, one of the requirements I wanted to meet was having a proxy server protect it. Basically, a proxy server is where another person’s server hides the original IP of the base server. For example, this image:

    In my case, I wanted my public IP to be not seen by using domain IP lookup tools. And possibly misuse it for malicious intents. (Such as DDoSing)

    After a little googling around, I discovered that Cloudflare had the free proxy option when you use their service. So I switched over nameservers to Cloudflare instead of GoDaddy nameservers, and it copied over the current DNS records. I just had to change the A record with the “orange cloud” enabled. The “orange cloud” is the switch on whether or not a DNS record has the proxy enabled or not

    above: Orange cloud means proxy is enabled, and grey is direct DNS enabled

    This tool can be handy for many hosting cases such as Minecraft Servers and Web hosting.

    I definitely recommend using Cloudflare for Proxy and DNS management, as they have many useful tools, including redirects for domains.

  • 3D Printing “Baby Yoda” from The Mandolorian

    Yesterday I printed a fun thing I found on Thingiverse, it was Baby Yoda from The Mandolorian Star Wars tv show (link to thing here). the first time I printed it I had scaled it down so small that it only took twenty minutes to 3D print, the next time I scaled it up and it took two hours to print, the end result was pretty good so today I painted it the colors of Baby Yoda. These are the settings I used:

    Infill: 20% 

    Supports: Yes

    Layer Height: 0.2 

    at the time that I am writing this, I am printing Baby Yoda’s little floating crib!

    (Above: My 3D print)

    (Below: Baby Yoda)

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