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Whatever you are stuck on, there is a runbook for it.

A problem, the steps that solve it, and the tools each step needs, written after we have done it ourselves. We also publish tool comparisons ranked on our own runs, and keep the methods current, saying plainly when one has been replaced.

Problems we have solved

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RunbookI want email on my own domain and I want it to actually arrive

Set up email on your own domain so that it actually arrives

Getting hello@yourdomain working takes about forty-five minutes and costs nothing. One step decides whether the mail arrives, and it is not the one you expect.

  1. Pick a mailbox, not a forwarder
  2. Create the account and choose the data center
  3. Turn off anything that already handles mail for the domain
  4. and 4 more steps
Tools this needsZoho Mailfree tier is enoughCloudflarefree tier is enough

Time 45 minLevel beginner

Open the runbook

Why trust this

We run it before we write it

Every runbook is a workflow we did end to end. Where a step failed, the failure is in the runbook.

Every tool, with what it costs

We say which tools a step needs, what each charges, and when the free tier is genuinely enough.

Nobody pays for a place here

No vendor sees a page before it goes up. Where a link earns us a commission we say so on the page, and it costs you nothing extra.