cold90.com again
or the year I finally decided to do what everyone is already doing
Introduction
It is now early 2020. My domain has switched between more hosting provides than what can be healthy and nothing is certain any more. Guess I knew just enough about DevOps to be dangerous.
Let’s set up an aggregated comparison between planned and current goals/requirements:
Domain Name
The domain name should be somewhat related to my last name
After much deliberation I choose a nice new domain (more on that later)
I’m not sure I ever delivered on that promise, but you can check out the About page to learn more about that.
Mail and Calendar
Mail and calendar to be managed via Microsoft Exchange
Mail and calendar completely managed via
Google AppsG Suite
As much as I like Open Source, for some reason the Microsoft Office Package still manages to be my favorite Office Package. In the End, G Suite won because the Pricing for Office 365 for Business (that’s what they call: What we want you to pay for letting you use your own domain) isn’t really competitive if we talk about a single person using it.
G Suite is just that tad bit cheaper without having to compromise on much.
Web Site
All page content served via an ASP.NET stack 1
All page content served via managed WordPress installation
You can read about how that went in “cold90.com” from 2017-04-022.
Protected Pages
There is always a main page that will handle the actual unlocking (easier to route)
Access is granted via password only (Passphrase is probably a more suitable word for the context)
Child Pages are not visible without authentication
I have some good news for this one! I got rid of them. Translating Roleplaying Stuff isn’t really worth it if it’s nothing you can publish.
New Requirements
That brings us to the new requirements, which have become a bit more… Modest :
- All page content served by whatever runs on the cheapest available VMS
- Can be resolved through conventional DNS
- Is available 99% of the time
- Is a static web site
Sounds reasonably. Sounds doable! — I hope.
I switched to Jekyll to solve the last point.
But that’s a different story. 2