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title = "To self host or not to self host, that is the question?"
author = ["George M Jones"]
publishDate = 2022-03-22T00:00:00-04:00
lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:51-05:00
tags = ["geek", "100DaysToOffload", "blogging", "life"]
categories = ["blog"]
draft = false
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Shelving the self hosting for a while.   Just gonna push the static
blog up to my 20 year old Hurricane Electric shell account.
[URL redirection](https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/384/2237/what-is-url-redirect-and-how-does-it-work/) is a marvelous thing.  This is not your fathers CNAME record.

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After my raspberry pi died (when I unplugged it from the new UPS that
was supposed to keep it up),  and I manifestly failed for 2 weeks to
allocate the time to rebuild it,
I decided to let other people run the system and network. While it's
fun/retro to go back to doing all my own systems admin, networking and
security work on top of a day job that has me on a vertical learning
curve with systems, networking, security, databases, programming etc
at the end of the day, literally at the end of the day, I just don't
have it in me to sit in front of a computer and do more computer
stuff.

So I will let the nice people at Hurricane Electric with whom I've had
an a shell account for ~20 years run the system, the web server and
the network (they are really good at that).   Every time I send mail
to support@he.net I get what seems like a genuinely interested geek
replying.

Division of labor.  What a concept.

I've got other things in life that need attention and time now (and
some world events that are sucking up attention)

\#17 of #100DaysToOffload take 2, <https://100daystooffload.com/>