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This blog is now given an official (domain) name since I switched to Octopress 2 weeks ago.

The domain is bought from NameCheap at 99 cents for first year, thereafter $10.69/yr. This is a special promo given after they won the best registrar from lifehackers. (promo code WELOVEU)

Wonder how I host this blog?

Host blog on Github Pages

The blogging framework is using Octopress, and the baked webpages are hosted using Github Pages (Free!).

To use my custom domain, I added samwize.com to the file /source/CNAME in Octopress.

Since I am now using a top-level domain, I have to add an A record pointing to 204.232.175.78. I also redirect www.samwize.com to samwize.com. My Namecheap host records looks like this:

HOST NAME	IP ADDRESS/URL	RECORD TYPE
@	204.232.175.78	A (Address)
www	samwize.com.	CNAME (Alias)