Cloud hosting and Self-hosting

This ‘migratory nerd’ has moved back to OVH for hosting

Besides removing all the cover images on the site, you may have noticed the change in logos, colours, and various other details. Here’s what that is all about.

“… each of my posts has usually sported a big ol’ hero image as the background for the post’s title, description, and date-of-issuance info. That, too, has been limiting and even delaying, even if only as a lame excuse on my part. After all, it’s not always possible to find a freebie stock photo that has even a tangential connection to a post’s subject(s).” (Bryce Wray in a post about CTCAJW mode)

This site now lives on an Alpine instance via Vultr.com public cloud. No more Azure Storage Blob web hosting (Microsoft) for me. And though it wasn’t a financial decision, I save money!

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted in a long time: “I have been up to tech!”

It seems I’m doing more front-end web work than is ideal these days. I say that because I tend to prefer technical aspects of web development…

This is true despite the fact that I am moving my websites (including this one) away from OVHcloud and/or self-hosting, and am making a shift to using Microsoft 365. Some will never believe that nor accept what I have to say about it, but for me it’s the right decision.

While our internal tests (using private data that would need to be replaced with dummy data) of a full config were successful, frustrations with ‘our’ OpenStack hosting provider has led to the conclusion that it’s not a viable cloud alternative for us. In addition, is our finding that this approach involves more effort than if Terraform were a viable option, so if we were to continue with public cloud infrastructure we would prefer services with which we can successfully use Terraform.

I’ve been experimenting with Terraform to manage a number of Public Cloud Infrastructure instances (virtual machines) on OVHcloud. I hit an issue that affects both OVH API and OpenStack API on OVH. For OpenStack on OVH there are ‘Resource Not Found’ issues which seem to be experienced by others as well. For the OVH Terraform provider plugin there are issues with id’s being changed.