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I had personal site on shared hosting with blog, microblog, "lifestream", photo gallery in the late 00s. It's been a 'placeholder' status for redevelopment sinc

I had personal site on shared hosting with blog, microblog, "lifestream", photo gallery in the late 00s. It's been a 'placeholder' status for redevelopment since I think about 2011-12. I got a job and started (over)working. Bugs/exploits in the PHP framework I was using took the site down a few times. Maintenance lagged, and I eventually zipped everything and shut it down. I've found a better work life balance over the years, but just haven't connected the dots to ever doing something new with it. I think the last attempt foundered on picking a static site generator. Most of my IRL friends and family barely use Facebook so I'm pretty sure few were ever very aware of what was on there.

thomashabets2 2y ago
This is why I use a static site generator. No security fix is ever urgent. No risk of needing to make a bunch of changes in case I need to move host, and they have a slightly different version of PHP. The thing never "fails to start" after a reboot. No database that can cause problems. It's just files. Anything can host just files. My first site actually started as what we'd now call a static site generator back in the 1990s. Then PHP a few years later, then Python built on webpy.org (including an admin interface), and now back to a static site generator. Most of my friends are computer people, and know and occasionally read my blog. My non computer friends could not care less.
- guappa 2y ago
  In the end it turns out that the way of doing websites by creating .html files directly was the more future proof :D