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 the last domain in IBM® Cloud

Late last night I again formatted my computer and I am still reinstalling the software I use most of it are now genuine...It's now 10 years since I have been using this my own Lenovo®/IBM® ThinkCentre™ Intel® Core™ 2 Duo desktop computer...

In a way, to celebrate this decade or 10 years of having my own computer, today noon around 1:00 PM, I bought the last TLD (Top Level Domain) .com I intend to buy, and I bought it from IBM® Cloud...I bought the domain naheezthawfeeg.com and this completes my purchases of the .com domains.

I now own guestworm.com, thawfeeg.com, and naheezthawfeeg.com registered in IBM® Cloud, naheez.com and nahyz.com registered in Google Domains™, and naheez.mv registered in Dhiraagu...

The first ever domain I bought was guestworm.com on I think, 21 October 2003 and it was the very first website I designed on my own using Microsoft® Office FrontPage™ 2002/3 and this is now a discontinued software by Microsoft®...

As it's been a while since I haven't regularly logged into IBM® Cloud, I made some errors and mistakes while configuring the DNS Forward Zones and other DNS settings but later corrected the mistakes...As always now, I registered for the free site plan of Cloudflare® and changed the IBM® Cloud default Name Servers form that of SoftLayer® to those Name Servers (NS) of Cloudflare®...

I then made a blog naheezthawfeeg.blogspot.com and linked my new domain naheezthawfeeg.com to it in Blogger®...I also added the domain naheezthawfeeg.com as an alias domain in the Google® G Suite™ free edition so I can start to use the domain in G Suite™ free...

The control panel of IBM® Cloud is a bit sophisticated since this is a very large company and one of the largest technology research company's of the world...IBM® Cloud offers bare metal servers which means it's not only a dedicated server but one a customer can configure the hardware to best suit his or her or needs and requirements...IBM® Cloud can even offer bare metal servers with HPC (High Performance Computing) power and that's with supercomputer powers...

Now this new domain naheezthawfeeg.com is registered in IBM®, the blog is hosted in Google®, and the site is served by Cloudflare®...I have obtained the services of three major companies to serve my new domain naheezthawfeeg.com which I nowadays do with all of my domain registrations and hosting...

This is the first every time I paid and bought a service directly from IBM®...

:) ... Allah Akbar...Allah is great...(Location: Male'...Date: Thursday 24 January 2019...Time: 5:37 PM...Part of the day: Early evening...Weather: Nice...Temperature: Very Pleasant)