Hosting

Hosting services ‘in the cloud’ and/or self-hosting (locally or on remote machines)

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Blog
Nov 14, 2023
Web presence refresh and an update
Got a bit off track, so resetting and in the process doing a web presence refresh. That includes removing some cruft from this site.
$A small painting with a computer in shades of purple in the\nforeground and blue background, in a conceptual style\n$
Blog
Mar 25, 2023
It’s all different but mostly the same
While all my websites now look very different than a month or two ago, the content hasn’t changed very much. On the flip side, I’ve moved my hosting back to Netlify and MS365, and my professional life is on the move.
$A small painting with a computer in shades of purple in the\nforeground and blue background, in a conceptual style\n$
Blog
Oct 13, 2022
Back to OVH
This ‘migratory nerd’ has moved back to OVH for hosting. [2023-07-11: And recently, have done so yet again, after visiting Netlify for a while]
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Blog
Jul 31, 2022
You may have also noticed
Besides removing all the cover images on the site, you may have noticed the change in logos, colours, and various other details. Here’s what that is all about.
$A small painting with a computer in shades of purple in the\nforeground and blue background, in a conceptual style\n$
Blog
Jul 31, 2022
Where have all the pictures gone
“… each of my posts has usually sported a big ol’ hero image as the background… That, too, has been limiting and even delaying, even if only as a lame excuse on my part.
$A small painting with a computer in shades of purple in the\nforeground and blue background, in a conceptual style\n$
Blog
Jul 10, 2022
Alpine Vultr — Oh my!
This site now lives on an Alpine instance via Vultr.com public cloud. No more Azure Storage Blob web hosting (Microsoft) for me. And though it wasn’t a financial decision, I save money! [2023-07-11] I went all purist open source, for a few months.
$A small painting with a computer in shades of purple in the\nforeground and blue background, in a conceptual style\n$
Blog
Apr 19, 2022
I have been up to tech
If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted in a long time: “I have been up to tech!” I’ve created and updated quite a few projects.
Blog
Jul 3, 2021
No, I have not sold my soul, v2
This is true despite the fact that I am moving my websites (including this one) away from OVHcloud and/or self-hosting, and am making a shift to using Microsoft 365. Some will never believe that nor accept what I have to say about it, but for me it’s the right decision.
$A small painting with a computer in shades of purple in the\nforeground and blue background, in a conceptual style\n$
Blog
Jun 25, 2021
Halting ‘Infrastructure via code’ project
While our internal tests (using private data that would need to be replaced with dummy data) of a full config were successful, frustrations with ‘our’ OpenStack hosting provider has led to the conclusion that it’s not a viable cloud alternative for us.