Month: September 2016

Blogging

Getting from http to https

TweetShareSharePin0 SharesThe world is moving to https, but that was not the reason for the move. Initially I was happy to use whatever Digital Ocean (DO) supplied in the WordPress droplet. But as I explained in my last post, I had some problems with moving from wordpress.com to my self hosted site at DO. In short the problem turned out to be Chrome caching sites that accepts https making my site unavailable to every visitor that has been to my site in […]

Blogging

Moving to selfhosted and failing hard

TweetShareSharePin0 SharesI had decided to move one of my blogs to a self-hosted model to get more control over plugins and other things. After reading up a bit on different vendors I found Digital Ocean to be my choice. What’s not to like with a place that can spin up a complete Linux with WordPress installed and ready for me to use? Yes, it only takes them seconds and it is powered by SSD. Adding that it costs $10 per month […]