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Recently we had an outage where a domain name expired - we didn't get a warning that it expired due to various factors but it highlighted a freaking major flaw in our systems.

Now, we are fixing it internally, but our current registration provider is namecheap (is hosted on dnsimple) for this domain, which "helpfully" put up a parking page when the site expired which meant some of our client websites were being redirected to their competitors! <facepalm />

So question, who do you use for professional domain name registration where this sort of parking page stupidity can be avoided? A company that will call you if a domain name is going to blow up and if there is an expiration, someone that will set the refresh to 60 seconds and contact us?

We are seeing major disruption on multiple sites, status.heroku.com is not useful. Just spoke to someone from Salesforce who mentioned it looks like an underlying AWS Cloudfront issue. Anyone with more data? Multiple production sites just time out including the heroku dashboard itself.

A co-worker asked for a recommendation for a good CSS course for them to learn further. They are not a total beginner and can do fairly complex styling and the like, however, they have been 100% self taught and so have picked up things that are just the wrong way of doing it.

Most intermediate courses I've found focus on CSS frameworks or precompilers and the like, he doesn't want this as most of their work is landing pages etc so the CSS course needs to focus on plain CSS with HTML.

Any recommendations?

In a growing startup, we have settled on macs as our work machines using cloud software for most of our work. We are at about 20 people now and plan to grow over the next few years pretty rapidly and I want the company to get on top of the IT and equipment issues (think compliance, SOC2 etc). What are other startups using for this to start small and grow and be able to keep track of systems across the world?