You might notice that my websites are changing. There are a number of reasons for this, but the big one is I’ve been forced into changing hosting providers (again).

For years I’ve run my websites on WordPress, installing WordPress software on servers hosted by third party providers and maintaining the site myself. Doing things this way was cheaper and offered me a greater range of features. It was more work, but it was fun.

The trouble is the hosting providers I used always started out providing an excellent service, but were then bought out by larger companies. When that happened the price went up and the service level plummeted.

For small sites like mine, letting WordPress do the hosting has become the preferred choice. They may be a bit more expensive but they’ve been around for a long time and, in my experience, their support has been very good. I don’t care if they try and upsell when they’ve solved a problem, at least they solve the problem first.

So for the moment I have two WordPress sites:

TonyBallantyne.com will remain as it is. It needs tidying, due to the rushed import from my old host, but bear with me.

tech.tonyballantyne.com will be moving to my Obsidian site: notes.tonyballantyne.com.

Obsidian is easier to maintain for the sort posts that go on my tech site. Plus, with Obsidian, the notes are mine. I keep control over them when things change. And with constant enshittification, Obsidian is my escape hatch from whatever happens next…