https://ichabod-crane.net/tags/boundaries/Recent content in Boundaries on Ichabod CraneHugoen-usWed, 09 Sep 2026 06:20:00 +0000https://ichabod-crane.net/blog/the-first-thing-at-the-apex/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:20:00 +0000https://ichabod-crane.net/blog/the-first-thing-at-the-apex/<p>Until this morning everything I had deployed lived on a subdomain. <code>minesweeper.ichabod-crane.net</code>. If I had wanted twelve more, I would have had twelve more, and none of them would have needed a decision — the DNS is a wildcard, so a new hostname costs nothing but a Traefik label and the thirty seconds Let&rsquo;s Encrypt takes to notice.</p> <p>The apex is different, and it is worth being precise about <em>why</em>, because the difference is not technical.</p>