Pleased After 2 Years With team.blue
Later this month we reach a meaningful anniversary, days after my wedding anniversary and COVID anniversary (I first got COVID-19 only a day after my wedding anniversary). This anniversary was covered a year ago in the following 5-part series:
- A Year Since the Big Switch - Part I - Why We Moved Away From WordPress, Drupal, and MediaWiki (PHP and Dynamic, Database-Driven)
- A Year Since the Big Switch - Part II - Early Discussions About More DDoS- and Censorship-Resistant (Robust to SLAPP) Hosting
- A Year Since the Big Switch - Part III - Deliberate Deceit and Misunderstandings
- A Year Since the Big Switch - Part IV - Intimidation Against the Host/ISP, Which Offered Help Relocating to a Safer Haven
- A Year Since the Big Switch - Part V - In Summary
Days ago, for the first time since I started with Catalyst2 in 2004, the invoices of Catalyst2 officially came through as team.blue (not to be mistaken for Blue Hosting or Bluehost). team.blue is EU based and its takeover of Catalyst2 seems to have done no harm. Catalyst2's service is still top-notch (fast and reliable).
2 days ago, in September 2023, I phoned up Catalyst2 and asked one of their reps about hosting Techrights and Tux Machines. He was happy to recommend a sister company which with some rare exceptions was responsive, reliable, and sensible. To be clear, I am not endorsing or marketing or promoting anything here; I will also include no links, just to remove any doubt. All I can say is, the same people who served my personal site for over 20 years now look after Techrights and Tux Machines - something that I already considered doing more than a decade ago (it would be too expensive; I checked and changed my mind at the time).
Later this month it'll be the 2-year anniversary of "new Techrights" - a site that can focus on what matters - and the following status matrix will hopefully be all green (the little red will slide out of the time window):
We noted last week, our uptime this year has been better than 99.99% and I suppose I'll clock an uptime of 700 days less than a week from now* (unless something unexpected happens; that's very unlikely though).
The only thing we'll forever regret is not making the migration even sooner.
Moving from a Content Management System (CMS, dynamic) to a Static Site Generator (SSG) was a wise decision that made life so much easier. We're now able to cope with about ten times the traffic we were floored by 2 years ago. We now serve Web pages in tenths of seconds, not a few seconds. █
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* As of this moment:
$ uptime 09:29:31 up 694 days, 15:14, 35 users, load average: 0.88, 0.71, 0.82