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I've got a personal blog I started when I moved to New Zealand in October 2000. It started as PHP Nuke, moved to PostNuke, then moved to Drupal where it's stay

I've got a personal blog I started when I moved to New Zealand in October 2000. It started as PHP Nuke, moved to PostNuke, then moved to Drupal where it's stayed ever since. I've looked at moving it to Hugo but it's too hard, all the old links etc break. I'm sure if I paid someone they'd be able to do it. It's got ~3100 entries. Most people thought I was nuts keeping my own blog when things like Livejournal etc existed. I'm glad I did it myself though, it keeps my Linux skills sort of relevant (it's a LAMP stack still though, so relevant might be a little bit of wishful thinking...) Anyway I'm glad I've kept it up over the years - it documents me moving to NZ, the people I met, meeting my wife, buying our first house, our second house, our kids etc. I used to write in it every day, but as I've gotten older and more busy with life I'm lucky if I write in it more than 2-3 times a month. Plus life is a lot easier to document now I have a camera on me 24/7 I keep it out of Google / Search as best I can with robots and Meta-Headers, but it's there if you look hard enough. Of course my blog is much less noteworthy than the linked one, mine's just for me (and my close family) and has zero useful public information (which is why I've kept it out of Google, I'd feel bad polluting search with my rantings)

12907835202 3y ago
A LAMP stack is definitely not as uncommon as you think. Perhaps LNMP (replace Apache with Nginx) is more common these days but not that dissimilar
- muppetman 3y ago
  Yea I keep meaning to look at using Nginx but my website is so small, gets so few hits etc. I know .htaccess, I know the Apache .conf file etc. I do have a nagging feeling I need to drag myself out of early 2000 thinking though...
waboremo 3y ago
Oh don't be too hard on yourself for polluting rankings, search engines are supposed to be good enough to not recommend someone's personal blog if it's irrelevant to their search. Assuming this is the catalyst for trying to avoid search. I empathize with feeling as if your content is useless to others, but you really can't know what people are going to internalize from your writing. A post about someone you met could feel too mundane for you, but to someone else could be the very reason they make an important decision in life. You really can't ever know what someone else internalizes about it (unless they tell you about it!) so don't let that reason stop you or make you feel like you're polluting anything, you're doing the opposite of polluting rankings!

12907835202 3y ago

A LAMP stack is definitely not as uncommon as you think. Perhaps LNMP (replace Apache with Nginx) is more common these days but not that dissimilar

muppetman 3y ago
Yea I keep meaning to look at using Nginx but my website is so small, gets so few hits etc. I know .htaccess, I know the Apache .conf file etc. I do have a nagging feeling I need to drag myself out of early 2000 thinking though...

waboremo 3y ago

Oh don't be too hard on yourself for polluting rankings, search engines are supposed to be good enough to not recommend someone's personal blog if it's irrelevant to their search. Assuming this is the catalyst for trying to avoid search. I empathize with feeling as if your content is useless to others, but you really can't know what people are going to internalize from your writing. A post about someone you met could feel too mundane for you, but to someone else could be the very reason they make an important decision in life. You really can't ever know what someone else internalizes about it (unless they tell you about it!) so don't let that reason stop you or make you feel like you're polluting anything, you're doing the opposite of polluting rankings!