Developing my online shop

I think I can't post this in Facebook® because of Facebook®'s security systems might block this post, so I will write this blog entry in this main blog of mine.

Last year 2022, Google® finally stopped offering their free legacy Google® Workspace™ accounts for business use and I had to switch it back to only personal use. This includes my domains guestworm.com, naheez.com, nahyz.com , thawfeeg.com , and naheezthawfeeg.com . I removed my Dhiraagu registered domain naheez.mv from my Google® Workspace™ ( formerly called Google® G Suite™ and Google® Apps free ) and decided to use it for my online business.

My domain naheez.mv was registered in 26 July 2018 in Dhiraagu to celebrate the Independence Day of the Maldives on my own. It only costed 250 MVR registration and processing fee and 50 MVR per month for hosting fee. With GST (Goods and Service Tax) included it's now 54 MVR per month.

I needed web hosting for my business so I bought the cheapest web hosting package offered by Dhiraagu and more importantly I need a business email with domain @naheez.mv . But when I tried to develop my business web site I encountered lots of severe errors and problems in Dhiraagu web hosting. Many years ago in 2012 I developed a website for a friend of mine and during that time Dhiraagu web hosting was very smooth and easy. I never encountered any problems during that time. 

I choose Linux® web hosting as I am more familiar with developing websites in the Linux® web hosting server environment/operating system.

So since September 2022 I attempted to develop a small online web site in Dhiraagu web hosting and finally gave up.

Therefore I searched the internet for a free and also ad free web hosting company and found www.freehostia.com which is a UK based company offering free web hosting without advertisements and with many free features including PrestaShop™ support which is the CMS (Content Management System) for the online shop I attempted to develop in Dhiraagu web hosting. I am still developing it but these days I am resting at home most of the time.

I use Cloudflare® for my DNS and CDN (Content Delivery Network) and the nameservers of my domain naheez.mv  is in Cloudflare®.

Now comes the most interesting part of this blog entry.

My domain is registered in Dhiraagu, served by Cloudflare®, with two websites hosted in different companies and email provided by another company. The subdomain shop.naheez.mv website is hosted in www.freehostia.com in the United Kingdom, the main domain www.naheez.mv website is hosted in Google® Blogger™, the emails are hosted in www.zoho.com which is an Indian company based in Chennai, India...I have used four different companies to power up my domain naheez.mv so that the security is high and when one get's down or hacked, the others will still be online with my control...T

To seperate the subdomain shop.naheez.mv from naheez.mv I had to add two NS records in the DNS settings in Cloudflare and point it to www.freehostia.com nameservers and one addtional A record pointing that too to www.freehostia.com ...

The SSL/TLS certificate is provided by Google for free and for both the TLD (Top Level Domain) naheez.mv and subdomain shop.naheez.mv and there might still be some errors when visting to these links...

Allah Akbar...Allah is great

Registered a domain at IBM® Cloud

I hope very much that I am neither breaking or violating the terms and conditions of service by Google® and IBM®.

There is a lot free time these days as I am financially broke so does all my friends...So I thought earlier tonight, I will try to get an email naheez@thawfeeg.com(don't spam please) and to do that I need to register the domain thawfeeg.com.

So I thought I would try something new and thought of IBM Cloud™ and registered in it and IBM® gave me free credits of 200 US $ worth when I upgraded my account to a premium "Pay as you go" cloud account...

After completing the registration successfully of the domain thawfeeg.com (which is my last and name and also family name), I changed the DNS records to Cloudflare® and Google® setting all them to "automatic" so that those DNS records would propagate and update quickly...

Then I created a blog at Blogger™ with the address thawfeeg.blogspot.com and linked it to my new domain www.thawfeeg.com which is registered in IBM Cloud™ (also know as SoftLayer®) and now DNS provided by Cloudflare® after verification of my ownership of the domain.

I am expected to renew the domain thawfeeg.com on 10 October 2019 by IBM®.

Next I set this new domain as an alias in G Suite™ Free Legacy Edition of mine and verified my ownership of the domain...

I hope very much that my accounts won't be blocked or disabled for this...It's just an innocent effort of mine to learn more about these technology things on my own...

:) ... Allah Akbar...Allah is great...(Location:Male'...Date: Thursday 11 October 2018...Time:1:33AM...Part of the day:Early morning(still night)...Weather:Nice...Temperature:Cool)