2026-09-02
I've been wanting to try moving this site off of Github Pages and onto a Virtual Private Server (VPS) option. There's a few reasons for that: I want to connect a database to the site, I want to learn and practice hosting services myself, and I want more flexibility to extend the site to include other types of coding projects.
What's holding me back is partially lack of experience. I want to make sure I get things like security correct, and I want to make sure that I have controls in place to prevent too-high usage of the resources with unexpected costs.
However, I've been learning more about security and networking that what I'd known before. I also realized I can try to host the site from my local computer, like how I hosted a chat bot from within a terminal window in the past. I don't want to host locally permanently, but it will be a good learning exercize to give me a better idea of what to expect from a cloud server as compared to a local server.
Nothing material yet, but it feels like progress!