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More migrations | |
March 29th, 2018 | |
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I stayed up a little bit late last night and transferred all my | |
domains off of AWS, then I nuked it. Every trace of me is gone | |
from that platform, and once this horrible bill is paid I'm | |
closing the account completely. | |
In the wake of the move I started thinking about where to put all | |
my stuff and I decided that this little Raspberry Pi is more than | |
sufficient for my needs. I have already gone through the headache | |
of converting all my web properties to static sites in order to | |
host on S3, so putting content into nginx seems like the easy and | |
obvious next step. | |
I've installed nginx and I'm reading up on how to manage multiple | |
sites with it (seems almost identical to Apache). I'll clone down | |
the websites when I get home tonight, port forward 80 and reset my | |
DNS A records. I've already put together a script for gopher.black | |
that handles my dynamic dns changes and updates Namesilo, so I can | |
easily package in the rest of my domains there. Finally, I'll want | |
HTTPS, so I guess it's finally time for me to read the man page on | |
certbot and start using LetsEncrypt. Whee! | |
None of this sounds particularly difficult. Hopefully I won't run | |
into any unexpected walls. | |
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Moving away from the technical stuff, dropping AWS also represents | |
a shedding of a gross skin I've been wearing. I don't like the | |
monolithic, data-consuming giants. It hurts my heart when | |
I continue to use them, as I've mentioned before. I acknowledge | |
that I'll make choices that compromise my principles due to | |
convenience, and that's something I would like to lessen. | |
Do you think simply pulling websites off AWS can help facilitate | |
that sort of change? Am I ready to shut down my Google account? Is | |
that even viable as an Android user with Project Fi? I doubt it. | |
What are my realistic alternatives for phone service, anyway? Next | |
year I'll have a super-basic eInk phone I can set up on t-mobile, | |
but are they any better? Is any phone service any better? | |
I suspect I have a tiny bit of inertia I can use here but I just | |
don't see a clear action I can take. A lot of you have done | |
similar transitions in the past. Do you have any advice? |