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You should have your own domain

Sue Smith on December 19, 2023

A few weeks ago I posted a tutorial on pointing a domain at a website. This reminded me of some important things about the web that I'd like to hig...
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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

Awesome. I am working on Kel. kel.qainsights.com :)

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Sue Smith Fastly

Thanks for sharing! Is the email address on your dev.to profile a good place to send your domain code?

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

Yes please. Thanks!

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Stephen Howard

Thank you for sharing this topic, Sue. I'm working on a "software architecture for all" education platform.

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Sue Smith Fastly

Ooh that sounds really interesting! Let me know if you'd like a domain code and if so where to share it with you!

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juancarlos-murillo

Great, Sue! I will start working on my career portfolio... now is the time!

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Sue Smith Fastly

Agreed! You should absolutely do it. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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Jonah L

I'm working on a financial-awareness chat bot app where you tie it into the user's email with webhooks (no financial api :( ) to get notifications on purchases and allow categorization

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Sue Smith Fastly

Nice! Let me know where you'd like your domain code sent, you're welcome to share an email address, message me on Mastodon, LinkedIn, or the Glitch forum.

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Siebe Cluyts

is it so that when i connect my glitch website to my domain name that when i edit my glitch website it is immediatly put on my domain name? or does it have a delay or do i have to press save or something like that?

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Sue Smith Fastly

Your Glitch website will update straight away but if you're using a service like Fastly it might have cached your site content and take some time to update at your domain, you can purge the cache if that applies to your situation!

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dionis

I'm late, but can I get the domain, too? My goal is to open an anonymous social community website for the public!

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Sue Smith Fastly

Unfortunately you are a little late for the domains! I'll update the post to reflect that. Thank you for sharing though, your project sounds interesting!