This site is something I built and host entirely myself, rather than leaning on a website builder. It runs on a free-tier Oracle Cloud server I set up from scratch, with a WordPress theme I hand-coded — the blurred video background and the posts that react as you scroll are all my own work rather than an off-the-shelf template. Getting here was not exactly smooth. I lost a fair few evenings to Oracle’s double firewall quietly blocking traffic, a PHP version dead-end that forced me to rebuild the whole server on a newer operating system, and a run of cheerfully unhelpful nginx errors — 502s, broken permalinks, upload limits — each of which taught me a bit more about how the pieces actually fit together. It’s very much a work in progress and a place for me to tinker. At some point I also plan to put the same server to use as a personal VPN, so there’s more to come.
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