Coming Home
If you're reading this, it means that my move to self-hosting my website has gone more-or-less according to plan!
I've been paying a reasonable amount to Linode for many years now to run a server in New York on which to host this site. It's not a lot of money (US$12 a month, if you're really interested), but since this site is now merely a hobby and nothing at all to do with earning an income, it didn't seem to be a good idea to keep shelling out the dollars for it when I have a loft full of spare PCs, servers and laptops (most definitely in the geriatric category, but all capable of running a decent 64-bit Linux distro in 8GB RAM) that could be tasked to do the job for free instead. [...]