This marks the debut of my redesigned blog. My prior blog was ran on Wordpress with multiple plugins for enhancing security: filtering spam, blocking malicious admin logins, filtering malicious comments, backup jobs, auto-update jobs, analytics, asynchronous password protection. Unfortunately with AI, search crawlers and legitimate users, it kept hitting the resource cap constantly and DoSing my site. I have years of emails from Wordpress that my blog was falling offline and it's due to too many concurrent sessions and php processes consuming resources.
Using Claude to help with the UI and migration, I have pulled all my images and blog posts from Wordpress, compressed and reformatted them, and converted into a static site. My hope is to now have 100% uptime and tightened security. The beauty of static sites means no external comments to moderate, no login panels or plugin updates, it's just pure HTML. It should also be lightning fast compared to the Wordpress site, as it needs to load significantly less external resources and has no database communications needed to present content.
I also was careful to ensure the URL scheme exactly matched Wordpress' format, so all the external links referencing certain blog posts will resolve as if there was only a fresh coat of paint applied and not a complete overhaul of the entire infrastructure.
There's currently no search functionality, but the Archives link in the sidebar will help list all articles chronilogically. I will investigate bringing some sort of search functionality back that will work with static sites.