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Domain, hosting, email

Domain

  • alpformflow.ch, registered 2026-10-29 at Infomaniak, in the owner's name. Automatic renewal on.
  • Extra domains (alpform-flow.ch, alpformflow.com, alpformflow-massage.ch) are optional, later. See Branding.
  • Not needed: DNS Fast Anycast (clients are local) and Domain Privacy (the .ch registry does not publish the owner's data).

Hosting

  • Decided 2026-10-29: the website is static HTML (like the prototype), hosted on Infomaniak's free hosting that comes with the domain, in Switzerland.
  • Limits: 10 MB of storage, one website, static files only [verify]. Enough for the site; photos must be compressed (WebP, about 100–250 KB each), videos are embedded from YouTube or Instagram.
  • HTTPS: free Let's Encrypt certificate, renewed automatically by Infomaniak. The paid certificate adds nothing we need.
  • Upload: make site-build, then zip the contents of site/ (cd site && zip -r ../site.zip . -x '.DS_Store'), upload it in Infomaniak's web file manager (WebFTP, ftp.hosting-ik.com) to the site's root folder, extract, delete the zip. make site-deploy (rsync) only works if the hosting has SSH [verify].
  • Redirects: site/.htaccess (generated) sends http:// and www. to https://alpformflow.ch and shows our 404.html. The Infomaniak manager has no switch for this.
  • Cal.com, maps and analytics run on their own servers and use no space here.
  • Later: if we build our own booking (phase 2) or need a server app, we move to other hosting. A static site moves in about an hour.

Email

  • Business email on the domain (info@…, booking@…). Needed for platform verifications.
  • Set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC from day one, so booking confirmations don't land in spam.
  • Setup steps, providers and prices: see Account setup.