Is there anybody out there still reading this blog? I doubt it, but that is OK. A new post every two years does not attract a following.

A lot has happened since I started this blog back in August of 2007 including the widespread availability of cloud-based servers.

I have been running a test server on Amazon web serves since May 2019 to see what the cost would be. $9.47 a month or $113.64 a year. Amazon certainly has one of the widest sets of cloud computing services, but seems to be overkill for my personal web site.

It currently costs $131.88 to host this site with IONIS (formerly 1and1.com) which includes two domain registrations for proflehman.com and www.basingerlehman.com.

I am going to try to move this blog to Digital Ocean using their smallest droplet server which is currently $5.00 per month. Digital Ocean does not offer domain name registration, so will need to sort out how to register my domain names. For $60 a year plus the cost of registering my domains I should be able to host my web site on Digital Ocean.

Of course this will require me to install and management my own server, but should provide more flexibility and should learn much along the way. I plan to update this blog throughout the process.

Drop me a line in the comments section if you are still reading this blog or have used a cloud server to host your own website/blog.

-Prof. Lehman