The great digital move of 2025
It was a bit of a learning curve, but for the most part it’s done. I’m now hosting on Canadian soil.
I started with my previous host in 2006! Before I say 15+, but it was more like almost 20! Boy oh boy the mess in the wake of that many years.
It was a reminder to always clean my toys when I’m done playing with them and what happens if you don’t. It was also a very good exercise to purge, and prep to purge.
Too many domains I’m squatting on that I thought, at the time where cool, but now look back, I set them to “Don’t Auto Renew”.
One last task to take me about a year, is to transfer domains when I need. Paying to transfer all at once is a bit out of budget.
WP Activitypub plugin and Nginx issue
In the process, and for lessons. I did have one problem with porting ActivityPub over. Seems my new host adds an Nginx cache to sites to give ’em a bit of a boost. However… turns out it broke this site and ground it all to a halt.
Seems unless configured specifically using Nginx cache doesn’t like to swap content types. So when a page is rendered as HTML one moment, and then asked to render again as JSON-LD for activity pub, things go a bit off the rail.
Sadly that means I had to turn this feature off with my host, as they currently don’t allow for individual customization at the moment. But happily that I could, and this site in all it’s ActivityPub glory, can continue.
Back to AP and Statamic
A while back I mentioned about getting AP working for Statamic, and now that my hosting move is complete, back to this pet project. Keep you posted in my next weeknotes.