Field notes, operating decisions and tested methods—organized so you can find the next useful answer in seconds.
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Prepare useful pages, crawlable links, metadata, canonical URLs, robots and sitemap, then verify the site and submit it through Google Search Console and Baidu Search Resource Platform.
Create a small operating routine for a first website: health checks, disk and memory monitoring, versioned backups, off-server copies and a tested restore procedure.
Understand Caddy automatic HTTPS, verify DNS and ports in order, inspect service logs and solve common certificate failures without destructive guesswork.
Point a root domain and www host to a first server, understand A, AAAA, CNAME and TTL, verify public DNS and remove conflicting records.
Choose a readable domain, compare registration and renewal terms, keep ownership under your control and secure the registrar account before changing DNS.
Choose a first cloud server by workload, region, operating system, memory, disk and renewal cost, then complete a verification checklist before installing anything.