About this time last year my free hosted ran into some SSL issues. I ended up making my own workflow to make my own SSL certificate, with a limitation that they would only be valid for 3 months. This worked ok, but every time I would do this I would have to update a DNS TXT record to prove ownership of the site. About a month ago, on my free hosting site, the function to update TXT records broke and I have been unable to get assistance from them. The immediate fallout from this was that the Australian Daily Prayer app stopped working. So after a week of no support I moved that site to my local NAS and updated the app to point there. That was the beginning of the end for my old site.
I have been with my hosting place for about 13 years, but since that problem I have finally decided to just host this dev blog off my own NAS. Already I have started hosting a number of things on my NAS, like n8n, TaskTrove, FreshRSS, Forgejo, Plex, Calibre-Web, RetroAssembly, Home Assistant and a number of other smaller single use apps. Running WordPress on this is just one more thing.
This site is now using a new theme, running WordPress 7, and since I can directly touch a bunch of things, updating it might be quicker. Because this is off my NAS, I have blanket banned the top 20 countries known to run botnets, which means those countries will just not see this, which includes America, but I don’t think that is loss.
So now, here we are, with a different URL. My old site is still up, but with an expired SSL. I have imported all the past posts, comments and media. There probably are a few broken links due to age. I haven’t (yet) moved across the smaller New City Catechism or mobile multiply site. I might in time do that.
So welcome, have a look around, not much has change besides a theme change.
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