Well, changing to cloudflare was just a 2 line change, and if it gives us worldwide superfast CDN for free, I don't see any reason not to use it :)
Regards Anurag On Tue, 26 Oct, 2021, 10:50 PM Bermler, <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t think having the site behind Cloudflare is necessary at least for > now. It should just point directly to gitlab. After all didn’t we say small > steps? > > > Sent from ProtonMail for PinePhone > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:30 PM, Anurag Thakur <[email protected]> > wrote: > > As discussed with the maintainers, the freetype.org domain hosting has > been changed to gitlab pages, along with cloudflare CDN. > > > Currently the gitlab pages are hosted on gitlab.com, via this repo: > > https://gitlab.com/freetype/freetype-web > > I chose gitlab.com instead of freedesktop.org since it was the easiest > way to make sure that the website is uninterrupted while we work on the > redesign, and it simultaneously allowed me to do the migration to > gitlab+cloudflare. > > After the redesign is complete, changing the hosting to freedesktop.org > would just require modifying 2 DNS records. > > Please note that all development should happen on the freedesktop.org > repo: > > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype-web > > > Do NOT send any MRs/commit to the gitlab.com repo. > > > I would like to request the maintainers to clear any config left on the > previous hosting platform/any shell scripts used to manage the website, > since it's all managed by gitlab pages now. > > > Happy to answer any questions > > Regards > Anurag > > > >
