For about 6 years or so, I have hosted a set of very small websites, including this one, on Netlify. I found it very easy to use, since you just push to a github repo and boom! Your web site is updated in a few moments with the same content. And Netlify very kindly offers a free tier for small time users like me. (If you’re reading this, you’re part of a very small group, so thank you!) I use Hugo to build my static web sites, so the content on Netlify is just a lot of static files - html, css, javascript and a bunch of images for the most part. That all worked great until just recently, when I learned that Netlify was using Amazon Web Services under the hood, to host their account contents. I am not a fan of Amazon (the company) so this became a problem. Also, I am moving my code off of github, for similar reasons. So I needed a new solution to running my sites. It had to be cheap, not hosted by Amazon or any of the other big tech firms (so a free Oracle server is not an option), and I had to be able to control it entirely myself.
Read moreNetSuite For Consultants - Second Edition
I recently finished updating my “NetSuite for Consultants” book for Packt Publishing and its now been updated for 2023. It is intended to help anyone learn how to implement NetSuite’s ERP and CRM software, but it was especially written for consultants working with NetSuite 2023. You can learn more about the book at its web site:
My Dad's Dogs
I took these pictures of my Dad’s dog collection from the 1930s and 40s. He really loved collecting them as a kid and I didn’t want him to lose track of them now that he’s in his 80s. Thanks to the web, he can enjoy them again any time he likes. I hope you enjoy them too.
My PeterRies account on Mastodon
My older personal blog posts on Wordpress
My older techy blog posts on Wordpress
My work profile on LinkedIn
My profile on StackOverflow
Just a note here to say that I still believe in privacy and so this site does nothing to track you. I don’t know how many people visit or subscribe to the RSS feed and I know nothing else about any of you, unless you choose to reach out to me. I am not selling anything from here and you are not losing anything by visiting this site. And that’s how it should be.
And, by the way, because of the above, I don’t have a proper comments feature built into my site. I use CommentBox.io as a plug in on some pages - such as blog posts - and I will receive an email from them if you sign in and leave a comment in their little box. I usually approve the messages I receive this way. Cheers!
