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Hosting this index on Vercel

DNS, TLS, and the quiet win of boring URLs.

Ansh Sarkar

infra · vercel

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This project is a plain Next.js app. Vercel connects to your Git provider, builds on every push, and hands you a preview URL before you merge.

DNS sketch (Hostinger → Vercel)

Point your apex domain to Vercel's recommended records (often A records to Vercel anycast IPs, or ALIAS/ANAME if your registrar supports flattening). For www, a CNAME to cname.vercel-dns.com is the usual spell.

Keep TTL moderate while testing, then raise it once stable.

Why markdown in content/writing

Markdown keeps you honest: diffs read like essays, and you never have to log into a heavy CMS to fix a typo. If you outgrow files, you can port the same frontmatter schema to a database later, and the URLs stay.