https://andrewalexander.io/post/ Recent content in Posts on Andrew Alexander Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2017. All rights reserved. Sat, 08 Jul 2017 11:48:33 -0400 https://andrewalexander.io/post/route53-as-dns/ Sat, 08 Jul 2017 11:48:33 -0400 https://andrewalexander.io/post/route53-as-dns/ I recently undertook a journey to transfer my DNS hosting from Namecheap to Amazon’s Route53 service. Doing so wasn’t as straight-forward as I would have hoped, and so I am writing this post to go over some of the challenges I had and what I learned in the process. First off: I don’t think I will ever really understand DNS fully. Every time I think I’ve got a solid handle on the basics, I learn something new about what should have been DNS fundamentals and it forces me to entirely rethink the flow of how I thought things were working.