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Musings

A blend of thoughts, insights and info generally inspired by good coffee.

Web to email with Mailgun

- 3 minute read

We recently migrated a number of of our client websites over to Mailgun for sending emails from web forms and components with a data to email requirement.

When we hook up web to email we generally use authenticated SMTP servers tied to the domain…

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Changing your domain name

- 3 minute read

Businesses change their name for a wide variety of reasons, the business has changed direction, has rebranded due to market research, has been through a merger, or simply the business is looking for a fresh start.

So you’ve decided you’re going…

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What your browser says about your website

- 2 minute read

We wrote a little about connecting to websites securely a while back, what it does and some reasons for using HTTPS. A couple of the major browser vendors have now brought the issue back into focus; you may have noticed if you use Chrome or Firefox…

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Registering domain names the right way

- 2 minute read

Over the years we have transferred, hosted and registered a lot of domain names. Of all the issues we have faced the biggest is often the one which should never have occurred and at first glance seems to be the simplest of administrative errors, but…

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Protecting your brand with domain names

- 2 minute read

Back in the day, protecting our brands with domain names was a little more straightforward. We chose our brand name and bought the matching .co.nz, or country specific extension, and possibly the .com to go with it if we felt like being a bit more…

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