I recently thought I would get back to updating this site. It’s been dormant for a number of years due to … pressure from individuals at work who thought it would be prudent for me to tone down my rhetoric.
Too old to care about that anymore so I thought I would resurrect this site.
Started with the Google Cloud (Free) version and, to be honest, the result was less than spectacular. Now, it wasn’t all Google’s fault. I will freely admit that part of that responsibility lay squarely at my feet. I trusted AI to tell me everything that I needed to do to get the site up and running.
AI lied.
That was kind of harsh wasn’t it? Let’s try that again.
AI was optimistic.
No, that’s not really it either.
AI was incomplete.
That sums it up better. It gave me a set of instructions to follow and things didn’t work. So I asked AI to fill in the gaps and it did, for the most part, but it still left things out. I ran through the AI checklist four or five times until the site was up and running.
And failing.
I created my first post, checked my DNS entries, retrieved my post, everything looked good. Until I came back an hour later (needed to eat and shower, I’m not a barbarian!) and it was offline. I tried to SSH to the server and nothing. I then checked to make sure that the external IP address had not changed, had been reserved and then rebooted the server. Things came back up.
“Weird,” I said to myself. Did a few other things and checked again in an hour and the site was down. $%^&
So I switched “free” providers. So far https://freehosting.com seems to tbe doing the job and doing it well. Not thrilled about the fact that I have to pay for a “free” SSL cert, but that’s minor in comparison to the overall cost.
I’ll give it a shakedown later, but let’s see how it goes for the rest of the day.