Just gotten word from WordFence security plug-in there’s another critical bug with another plug-in I had. The errant plug in has since been disabled and removed, but it does highlight a wider issue with regards to website maintainability given this is (or was) just a personal / family site… (Continued below)

Combined with reading about a recently reported Linux Kernel “Copy-Fail” CVE, Have taken the opportunity to move this site back to managed hosting from unmanaged VPS, “Freeze” this site (as much as possible) in the backend and stop posting to it indefinitely. Consequently this means the comment facility has also been disabled. The site will likely remain like this until I can find better uses of the domain name.

Some closing thoughts…

As an otherwise ordinary random member of the public, I don’t feel like there is any value in me trying maintain this site let alone bother to air my personal thoughts in a publicly accessible setting. I don’t consider myself a proficient writer and while I’m in I.T / Software Development. Web development isn’t my specialty.

Given there are very few (if any) inbound links from other sites, I’m surprised at how some of the content here is supposedly appearing high in the SERPs of various Search Engines as these posts of mine are mainly just public thoughts rather than well researched articles.

This type of site, the “personal homepage”, is a relic from the time I was a wee kid in the 90s when almost everyone and their pet had a Geocities account or space at their ISP e.g homepages.ihug.co.nz/~userID. Most people have long since moved on to social media platforms.

As mentioned on the originally pinned “About” post. I had set up this site as a friends and family domain, but frankly it has outlived this purpose.