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A personal blog that started in the grassroots webmaster era of 2012 survived tightening regulation, the app wave and the collapse of search traffic — and finally lost its reason to exist in the age of AI.
Cloudflare Tunnel — familiar to every Cloudflare user. On Linux the binary is called cloudflared, and the open source repo lives at https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared. So, with nothing better to do, I registered cloudflared.cn, hooked it up to Cloudflare's services, and then — my account was gone.
For the past few days my Aliyun CDN has been alerting constantly — traffic and request counts suddenly spike, triggering automatic shutdown. After analyzing the access logs, I found the requests mainly came from IPs in the following areas, all hitting a single image on my CDN.
On December 3, 2024, Cloudflare updated its 'Cloudflare Self-Serve Subscription Agreement', explicitly banning IP cherry-picking (deliberately selecting specific Cloudflare edge IPs) and building proxies (circumvention tunnels) on its platform.
In early February 2024, Freenom reclaimed every free domain — yes, all of them. Log into Freenom and check your domain status: everything shows PENDING.
Now that Google Chrome has been pushing HTTPS hard, almost every website is served over HTTPS. Have you heard of HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)? It makes your website more secure and faster to load.
The other day someone asked me how I integrate Cloudflare and why it's relatively fast — and why the resolved IPs are still three A records? Let me share my site's architecture and how I use Cloudflare.
Recently a new extortion scheme targeting webmasters has emerged from the black/gray industry, and even Baidu is powerless against it — no fix yet. Today I'm exposing how it works from a technical angle.
Fellow webmasters: on November 30, 2023, Baidu's webmaster platform revoked all [Quick Index] and [sitemap] submission privileges. For the record: the revocation has nothing to do with using my [webmaster push tool]. See Baidu Search Resource Platform's December 1, 2023 announcement.
On July 17, 2023, the Republic of Mali took back the .ml registry because the delegation agreement expired. Back in 2013, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier obtained the .ml registry rights, signing a 10-year agreement with the government of Mali.
