AS some have noticed already, we're turning 12 this week (exact day dependent on what's measured/noted, e.g. first post or domain registration). 24,675 blog posts later, in addition to Wiki pages and static pages, probably put us at over 30,000 pages in total. In a sense, turning 12 doesn't matter much or as much as keeping up the momentum and being active. A lot of sites just go dormant, inactive. But not us. I'm thankful for the fact that my daytime/nighttime job (which helps cover the costs of running the site) can be done from home, leaving me enough time to run the site in my spare time. The site is like a hobby and it's the only way to keep it totally independent.

"The site is like a hobby and it's the only way to keep it totally independent."We'll soon start a site migration after a decade with the same host, who saved us from persistent, days-long DDOS attacks almost exactly decade ago (these DDOS attacks forced us offline for several consecutive days). Hopefully the migration will go smoothly; there's a lot of stuff to migrate and the setup isn't simple. There's also heavy load on the server, which proves challenging at times. When we start/initiate the migration at the domain name level we'll give a headsup to readers. We hope no downtime will be needed. ⬆