After (checks billing history) nine years ("Joined on: 2015-02-03") I am
finally giving up on Dreamhost hosting. I’m going to keep my domains there
because I have a bunch of free credits from things and they make it easy enough
to do them "DNS Only" and manage the CNAME
and ALIAS
records and so on, but
as soon as this DNS move over finishes (which will be before this post has gone
up, I expect), I will have cancelled my shared hosting. Previously I was on the
"Unlimited" tier, and now I’m on the "Shared Stater" plan, but soon I will be on
no plan, and it will be beautiful. As this is a static site, there are
so
many
free
places
to
host
it,
that I really shouldn’t be paying to do so. It made more sense when I was also
hosting a "professional" personal site, my wife’s bakery site, school projects,
etc., but now? Not really.
The other motivator to move things over is that Dreamhost recently (quietly) removed Passenger, which is what I previously had used to facilitate hosting the Flask-baked bakery site, and as I consider adding some "additional functionality" to this site via our dear friend HTMX, it’s too much trouble to manage the environment, deployment, etc., myself. So I’m giving Render a try. Maybe I’ll hate it. Maybe it’ll end up costing me money.[1] Maybe they’re secretly super unethical (I did google this first). Still: deployment is easy and I can (finally) ditch CircleCi, which also will be good.[2]
It’s a little annoying to configure all the DNS stuff but once that’s done it’ll be done, you know?
And though I do intend to make a newsletter thing and use this as a launching pad for the spiritual successor to Response,[3] in the meantime, while I build out all the other infrastructure, I won’t be paying for hosting I don’t really have to pay for, and this is a very wonderful thing.[4]