700 And Counting

I’m done with the “cleanup” of my site – which entailed updating links and adding photos to the site that were missed in the upgrade.

In the course of this I noticed that the last post is #700. I’ve had a lot to say over the years – some good, some boring. But, it was nice to go back and read many of the things I had posted.

Also, you may notice that I have removed the old photo gallery. I did this for a few reasons. First, my effort to “cloudify” my sites by removing them from my home server resulted in no place to put that particular gallery. Second, the software for that gallery application had become unmanageable on my server and needed to be changed or removed. Third, I’m no longer comfortable having all those pictures out there with the amount of unauthorized use of copyrighted material going on. My pictures had been “reused” a few times without my permission.

So, it’s gone. What’s left are some few items that I chose to post and write about. The bulk (over 5,000) of the pictures, though, are now offline.

To The Cloud!

After dealing with power outages, being hacked, and now WordPress updates that break my server, I’ve decided to migrate my blogs up into the cloud. Yes, the cloud. Some are going to wordpress.com for hosting, but this one is now hosted in Azure as a web app. I’m doing this a kind of a training experiment so that I can learn more of how it works. Plus, it’s a good comparison point to see how wordpress.com is hosting theirs.

Hopefully, this will free up my web server resources and allow me to pare down my internet service costs so that I don’t have to pay for business level service just to host.

I do have some cleanup to do as some links may not work properly. Please be patient. 🙂