Why I Left WordPress (and Dodged a PHP Zero-Day)
Why I migrated this site from a monolithic WordPress instance on AWS Lightsail to Astro on Cloudflare Pages and avoided a PHP zero-day.
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Why I migrated this site from a monolithic WordPress instance on AWS Lightsail to Astro on Cloudflare Pages and avoided a PHP zero-day.
Tech strategy is difficult AND fascinating because it’s unpredictable. In addition to worrying about the actions of direct competitors (i.e. Samsung vs Apple), companies need to also worry about the actions of ecosystem players (i.e. smartphones and AI vendors) who may make moves that were intended for something else but have far-reaching consequences.
(Note: this is part of my ongoing series on cheaply selfhosting) If you’ve been following my selfhosting journey, you’ll know that I host some web applications — among them, network storage for my family, tools for working with PDFs, media streamers, a newsreader, etc. — from an inexpensive home server on my home network.