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       More migrations
       March 29th, 2018
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       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.
       
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       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?