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Per-Brand Email From One Sending Path
Cloud Infrastructure

Per-Brand Email From One Sending Path

Five brands, one sending service, five templates. Consolidating the infrastructure while keeping the brands distinct is the right trade — and it puts every brand on one shared reputation, which cuts both ways.

Ash Ganda
8 min read
Turnstile, Honeypots and What Still Gets Through
Cloud Infrastructure

Turnstile, Honeypots and What Still Gets Through

Spam protection on a form stops bots. It does not stop a real person typing a fake address, an address with a typo, or somebody else entirely. Three layers, what each catches, and what none of them do.

Ash Ganda
8 min read
GST on AI API Spend: What Changed for Australian Customers
IT Strategy

GST on AI API Spend: What Changed for Australian Customers

A GST notice from one AI provider arrived the same fortnight as two subscription renewals, and together they made a point about how AI spend accumulates: in small amounts, across several vendors, charged to whoever set it up.

Ash Ganda
8 min read
The Backup You Have Not Restored
Cybersecurity

The Backup You Have Not Restored

A backup job that has been writing an empty archive for eight months reports success every night. The only test that distinguishes a backup from a habit is a restore, and almost nobody has run one.

Ash Ganda
8 min read
Incident Response for a Team of Four
Cybersecurity

Incident Response for a Team of Four

Incident response guidance is written for organisations with a security team. Here is the version for a business where the person who notices is also the person who fixes it, and the 30-day clock is already running.

Ash Ganda
8 min read
Splitting a Shared GA4 Measurement ID
Cloud Infrastructure

Splitting a Shared GA4 Measurement ID

Two sites fired the same GA4 tag, so blog traffic and commercial traffic could never be told apart. Splitting them took twenty minutes and one option had to be declined, or it would have undone the whole thing.

Ash Ganda
8 min read