stocksy.co.uk

Cloud Migration

written by James Stocks on 2024-12-07

I've migrated my web site to AWS. The source code is in an S3 bucket, which is served up through CloudFront. So modern.

'Launch' of my 'new' website

written by James Stocks on 2022-03-22

Since I was a teenager in the 90s, I've always maintained a web presence of some sort and I've seen the popularity of personal websites wax and wain over the years. I used to spend a fair bit of time writing content for my website and I would get quite a lot of interest in the articles I published, over 10,000 unique visits a month - the google ads would yield a $100 cheque a couple of times a year.

Things change. People share information in different ways and many more people are doing it now. There are people putting out incredibly high-quality and well-researched content so it would take a huge investment of time, thought and effort to compete with them. Readers don't interact with, share and contribute in the same way either. There's no point having a website with comment sections or bells and whistles because almost nobody will use these features.

It makes little sense to have a full-blown LAMP server dynamically generating what has become a rather static site, so I've moved to lektor, a static content management system. This setup gives the best of both worlds in many ways - a straightforward CMS, but without needing a server-side scripting language or database.