Moving local 2025-07-14

After years of renting a VPS, and the shifting landscape in-terms of data privacy and erasure of digital ownership, I've decided to move my online presence local where possible. I've purchased a refurbished Dell OptiPlex 3070 which I will soon move all of my web apps, websites, servers, etc onto. As you read this - the words on this page will be served to you from a little black box sitting on my bureau.

Nokia image showing the server atop my bureau

That's you!

This has been a good opportunity to learn about DDNS and the differences to hosting using a residential broadband.
For now I've archived some of my older private repositories and moved a few, including the codebase to this website, to GitHub from my Gitea instance. I may end up just keeping GitHub for a while despite my hesitations.