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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?
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