Enshittification has rapidly become enshrined as a fundamental principle of the economy of the internet. Once customers are hooked on various free and enhanced services funded by excess capital, the screws are turned and customers are bled as the service is monetized by reducing costs and quality.
Now that it’s happened to me, it’s become personal.
I was a Gandi customer for over 20 years, since my first ventures onto the internet with web hosting, still discoverable via the Wayback Machine (although I won’t give any further clues than that).Read more...
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I am trying to broaden my knowledge and secure my web assets by learning a bit more about other services and migrating sites there, after realizing that it is perhaps not wise to remain reliant on AWS.
This is a quick commentary on services that I learned about and tried (this post is one source of information). My needs are simple. All my sites are static, with mail hosting and any other services taken care of elsewhere.Read more...
That title sounds a bit Rocky and Bullwinkle to me. But it is appropriate to the situation.
I have migrated an older Wordpress post to this blog on AWS backup that provides some context or evidence of my past history with AWS.
Let me try to tell this story as concisely as I can. For the TL;DR crowd, the takeaways are labeled this whole episode made me realize.
I had been using AWS to serve all of my various websites for a long time.Read more...
I just posted a rather uncharacteristic video on YouTube about my deletion of videos. Usually I confine myself to either instructional videos or presentations, but this was just a rambling self-explanatory monologue.
This is a text version of some similar thoughts.
In my work, my personal organizing practice is to scan for files that are ten years old (or more) and reviewing them to either delete or permanently archive as a memento of the past.Read more...