Putting an EC2 App Behind Cloudflare (Part 1: DNS, Proxy, and SSL)
How I set up a Cloudflare subdomain to route traffic to an EC2 instance — reverse proxies, A records, SSL modes, and origin certificates explained.
Lab Notebook
Experiments
Quick prototypes, sketches, and weekend builds. They may be rough around the edges, but they always teach me something new.
NGINX, Security Groups, and Everything That Broke (Part 2: EC2 Setup)
The server-side half of putting an EC2 app behind Cloudflare — NGINX config, AWS Security Group lockdown, redirect loops, and debugging 521/522 errors.
Exploring Astro for My Portfolio on Cloudflare
Trying out Astro to understand if it fits a content-first portfolio setup