Moving VPS Again

post by jefftk (jkaufman) · 2023-05-04T00:30:04.556Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

After a series of technical issues at my hosting provider (downtime on 2023-03-08, 2023-04-23, 2023-05-02, 2023-05-03) I've now moved the somewhat numerous sites I host over to Amazon Lightsail. It's slightly more expensive ($10/m vs $8.49/m, primarily driven by storage) but it should be more reliable.

I've moved everything over, but let me know if you notice anything isn't working.

I thought a bit about whether I'd like to go fully static and put this all on Github Pages, but I enjoy being able to play around with dynamic bits (like Shrubgrazer). And even for sites I manage that serve via Pages I still like having preview versions on my VPS here for easy development.

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comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) · 2023-05-04T07:57:45.620Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Free static page services offer previews:

https://jace.pro/post/2020-12-17-cloudflare-pages-netlify-zeit-github-pages-and-gitlab-pages-where-to-host/

https://github.com/rossjrw/pr-preview-action

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comment by jefftk (jkaufman) · 2023-05-04T11:08:57.337Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Unfortunately I want private previews: when I send a draft blog post to someone for review that may contain things that shouldn't be public.