Llms-Txt

A website serving Windows Server 2019 was returning the correct pages to every human who visited, to Bing, and to Yandex, and Thai casino spam to Googlebot alone. The admin who posted about it had spent days inside the box looking for the cause. They checked web.config, the URL rewrite rules, the HTTP redirects, the custom error pages, the IIS handlers and modules and ISAPI filters, robots.txt, the sitemap, and then ran findstr across every drive for the spam domain and the casino keywords. All of it came back clean. The same behaviour showed up on multiple unrelated sites on the same server, which ruled out a single compromised application and pointed at something sitting underneath all of them. ...

I’m recertifying my AWS Solutions Architect Professional cert for the second time right now, so when I decided to build a personal site the temptation to go straight to Route53, CloudFront, S3, and Terraform was real. I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini what they thought before starting, and while they disagreed on a few things they all said to use GitHub Pages and not overthink the hosting. Gemini included a cost comparison that had an EKS cluster as one of the options at £150-200/month, which is overkill for basically any website, but it helped make the point that GitHub Pages with a custom domain was the obvious starting point. I could have spent weeks on infrastructure before writing a single post, or I could just start writing. ...