---------------------------------------- More migrations March 29th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- I stayed up a little bit late last night and transferred all my domains off of AWS, then I nuked it. Every trace of me is gone from that platform, and once this horrible bill is paid I'm closing the account completely. In the wake of the move I started thinking about where to put all my stuff and I decided that this little Raspberry Pi is more than sufficient for my needs. I have already gone through the headache of converting all my web properties to static sites in order to host on S3, so putting content into nginx seems like the easy and obvious next step. I've installed nginx and I'm reading up on how to manage multiple sites with it (seems almost identical to Apache). I'll clone down the websites when I get home tonight, port forward 80 and reset my DNS A records. I've already put together a script for gopher.black that handles my dynamic dns changes and updates Namesilo, so I can easily package in the rest of my domains there. Finally, I'll want HTTPS, so I guess it's finally time for me to read the man page on certbot and start using LetsEncrypt. Whee! None of this sounds particularly difficult. Hopefully I won't run into any unexpected walls. - - - - - Moving away from the technical stuff, dropping AWS also represents a shedding of a gross skin I've been wearing. I don't like the monolithic, data-consuming giants. It hurts my heart when I continue to use them, as I've mentioned before. I acknowledge that I'll make choices that compromise my principles due to convenience, and that's something I would like to lessen. Do you think simply pulling websites off AWS can help facilitate that sort of change? Am I ready to shut down my Google account? Is that even viable as an Android user with Project Fi? I doubt it. What are my realistic alternatives for phone service, anyway? Next year I'll have a super-basic eInk phone I can set up on t-mobile, but are they any better? Is any phone service any better? I suspect I have a tiny bit of inertia I can use here but I just don't see a clear action I can take. A lot of you have done similar transitions in the past. Do you have any advice?