Once again I’ve been inspired by a stack overflow question, and it made me think about issues of a shared hosting platform. You know the ones; the “host your site for £2.99 a month” sites. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it (I was using them for a long time until I decided I wanted my own server to play with, and still using one for a different project for the moment), but it brings its own risks. Some of those risks are to do with the infrastructure, others are with the people who are hosted on it.
Under Construction
I’ve left this site languish a little too long with no posts or improvement. It’s time for that to change, so I’ve started some development on the back-end, which will hopefully lead to a better working front end. Here’s a breakdown of what is in development:
- Splitting “versions” of the site out into individual posts rather than one large post
- normalising the database to introduce performance improvements
- re-writing the gallery section completely from the mess it currently is
- Adding some basic internal analytics (though I’ll still be using google analytics)
- Updating the text editor I use for better code formatting
Once that’s done, some of the changes will be obvious on the front end, but I’ll then look at changing front end pages to improve the experience for all.
Enough for now, this code isn’t going to write itself…
So you think you’re in control of your website?
I’ve recently been approached about a project for me to work on, part-time and on the side. This itself isn’t unusual, but it’s one of a very small minority which I think is a good idea and has some promise. I’ll not go into details about it, as I don’t know the full details of what role I would be involved in, and to what extent, but I had a look into it over the weekend and discovered something which probably affects many small businesses initially, and something which could be disastrous for them. Their SEO sucks.
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Yet another change
Hello and welcome to my new website, again. I last changed the site in March 2014, so just over a year ago, and now I’ve done it again. This time, things are a little different though. I’ve ditched Joomla and any other regular CMS, and have rolled my own. I’ve not done this because I think existing CMS products are inferior or rubbish; I actually have quite a lot of respect for them. I’ve done it as an exercise for myself to get used to working in an MVC driven way, more so for when I was in the process of changing jobs (more about that in a different post).