Sometimes we take on personal pet projects that we have expectations for, but then get side-tracked with other more-pressing matters.
This blog has been no different. I wanted to get a quick start to it so I set it up in a managed hosting environment. That’s fine to get something going quick, but then you realize you lose a lot of granular control in a shared hosting environment.
Unfortunately, due to being busy at work, getting my daughter ready for college, adopting another dog, and dealing with some health issues, my blog took the backseat.
Fortunately I am finally able to reclaim some time and work on it once again.
First step which I completed last night was spinning up a new droplet on DigitalOcean and setting up my stack. Got everything configured and moved my files over.
Next step which I’ve been debating is if I should restore all my old blog posts from like 15 years ago or not. I finally found all the backups and while 90% of that content is no longer relevant I kind of feel it belongs here.
Hopefully now that I am finally able to work on this site again I can get back to writing some original content.
Cheers,
–Jon