I have self-hosted my infrastructure for many years. When I moved to the island place compound last summer, I had to dismantle my server farm and ship the pieces over by boat. I moved this site (twoprops.net) and QRazy.fun to a cloud server, but thought I’d just bring up the others when our ship came in with the servers, cables, switches, and power supplies.
Our ship came in, but there wasn’t power enough to run the servers. We got the solar plant installed, but the house still needed to be re-wired. We got the rewire done on the house, but there just wasn’t time or space to devote to web sites that are obsolete (as is my work web site since my retirement) or largely supplanted by this site. In addition, I couldn’t get anyone at my ISP to consider selling me one or more static IP addresses. Still, from time to time I run across references to some of my old sites, and it would be nice if all those links weren’t dead.
As I was contemplating how to get my sites back online, a lot of unsavory drama seemed to be coming down at Automattic, the company that coordinates development of the free content management software WordPress, which my older sites use. I’ve never been completely comfortable with WordPress, as it relies on PHP and mySQL which are risky things to expose to the internet. I decided, instead, to convert the sites to static HTML (since I won’t be updating them anymore) and just host them on the same server as QRazy.fun and twoprops.net,
The sites are back up now, but there is a problem with deep links into the sites (everything just takes you to the home page) that I’m hoping I can fix with some mod_rewrite magic.
—2p