I have no way of knowing if you ended up here because you visited hexdsl.co.uk or because you went to hexdsl.com. Actually, you may have clicked a link and have no idea how you got here. It’s your business and it should stay that way. You may however have noticed that you have landed on the new and, well, not actually improved HexDSL.com. I mean. It IS new. As to if it’s improved is really down to point of view. From my point of view, it’s improved.
Why the change? I hear you ask. Well, partly boredom and partly because hexdsl.co.uk was hosted on Go-daddy a, company that seem to find new and interesting ways to bill me slightly more each year. Rather than figuring out how to give them more money to move the site to a new host, I just got a dot com and set fire to the old domain. Well, less fire, and more clicking the button that says “forward domain to…”
But WordPress? Yes, there are 86 million or so WP sites on the web at any given time, it’s fine. Lots of people use it and lots of people are stupid so lots of those sites get hacked. I’m pretty dumb too so I’ll probably get hacked too, now I think about it. Anyway, the reason I’m on WordPress is that I wanted something easy to set up, I’m also very bored of minimalism, not because it’s bad but because I have done that and am looking for something new. Basically, I’m running WP because “I like it”
Also, I think I’ll take a moment to say, that header image, I know it’s got not-transparent-transparency, it made me laugh. I am putting a comment about that here because I have a comments section now. Let’s see how many people comment on the image not reading this far.
Installed Windows, subbed to GamePass and now you have a WorPress site – Full normie? – yes.
Expect a book club post very soon, I have one in the barrel.
Hex.
Hi Hex
hi me
Did you abandon your gemini capsule?
It’s currently not being updated while I consider what to do with it.
I hope you will. Web is good, but Gemini is better (with Windows too!) 🙂
Yeah, honestly I’m still deciding what to do with it. Maybe I’ll bee how many people notice
I miss your Gemini capsule, Hex ;o; . I think the Gemini thing y’all have got going on is the coolest thing.
I think I’ll have the capsule up and running in a few days when I have the free time to setup a little server for it
have you looked at hugo? it might fit your needs
I did. But after quite a lot of looking, I decided to go with WP because I like the back end tools 🔨
fair enough!! are you self hosting it?
I got a crazy good deal with name cheap “easy WP” hosting, made it cheaper than spinning up a new droplet. (Old droplet is at capacity)
I’m planning on switching to self hosting when it’s time to renew. Thankfully WordPress is super easy to backup and move
How is the comment spam going? Seems pretty clean so far.
I like how this looks with the dark reader plug-in 😛
How did the migration from plain gemtext/html went? I would love to know how did you handle that
I’m moderating everyone’s first comment. Seems to be a nice way to stop the bots. I have also installed Wordfence (and jetpack) to control the issue. At the moment though, its been 1–% fine.