Moving more from Hetzner to OVH. Got one of the last two websites moved. DNS will be up next.
Revamped the dabX Canada site. A new theme (and the assorted mucking about making it suitable requires) is getting us most of the way there. A new payment gateway that is in place will reduce the reliance on Interac e-transfers, which will be a big hit with people buying from the site. The theme isn’t all the way perfect, but it’ll do for now. I might have to “go pro” to unlock some stuff to make it work all the way.
Truth be told, that site is really meant more for wholesale purchasers or people wanting more information on the product. The primary retail site will be Dongs’n‘Bongs or through resellers. That site will need a few days to come online, though.
I do not love mucking with front-end web stuff. Truth be told, I’m just not that good at it. Thankfully, I figure I’m about half-done and can move on to the fun site next.
Brought my personal cloud from Finland back to Canada, as I want to support companies that do business in Canada. OVH was an easy choice. A KS-LE-2 with 128GB of RAM and a pair of 450GB NVMe SSDs running PVE is the base for it all. It’s affordable, and it’s local.
A jumphost was first, as I’m not a fan of leaving ssh ports open on production servers. Next was a DNS resolver. Setting up and migrating a mailserver took an hour or so. I’m experimenting with RainLoop webmail, and liking it well enough so far as a database-free solution. A static webserver (running bare nginx, mostly for moving files around) was next, along with a happy little bot bomb. I hope the bot makers think to guard against buffer overflows and OOMs. Poor little cretins. A quick database server, then the webserver running this blog. Other stuff will move here soon.
Not bad for a couple of evenings’ work. I was able to shut down all but one of my VMs at Hetzner, and that one can go down once a couple of WordPress sites move over.
That being said, I’m freaking done with WP as a blog platform. It’s just isn’t any more, and the themes are actively hostile to it now. I don’t want a splash page, privacy policy, “about me”, contact form, appointment scheduler, and a dozen social media links. I just want to write my stuff and not worry about it.
I snagged a trial to CrowdSec Enterprise, but I’m not keeping it. I think I’ll use this as a baseline, using my own approaches, to see how things compare with CS at work.