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For me, I am migrating away from content management systems (like ghost.org) for blogs that I put together at https://www.whiteowleducation.com . I want to create really custom blogs in React, but the challenge is being able to do this in a way where the blog can be generated quickly.
Specifically I'm looking at USA postcodes that contain special character, or are too short or too long. I've done that now for 10 European countries. It's 1000s of small issues, some errors are 10 years old, a huge fun variety. For each I open the online editor, a nice satellite image is presented, and fix one issue. For example finding a restaurant's website.
If you're interested in your local area http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/ or https://www.openstreetmap.org/ click the layers button and click 'show map notes'. For global projects there's https://tasks.teachosm.org/explore
One very noticeable problem is that it's really easy to let things get out of date because upgrading them is painful without automation. So, for example, our CRM application is really old. Like, really, super, painfully old. Which means the other half of this project is "currency" - that is, updating software to current versions, and generally modernizing things.
The web server and xmpp server have been updated, and now I'm working on the server that hosts SugarCRM (which is no longer OSS, so we're migrating to a different product which was forked from Sugar), Mediawiki, and some locally developed stuff.
There's a few other miscellaneous improvements being made as part of all this as well: migrating all DNS records to ONE provider is one. Before, we had stuff on Route 53, and Rackspace. The latter was a legacy of our first website having been hosted on Slicehost way back in the day, and so we wound up being Rackspace customers for a time after they acquired Slicehost. We moved away from them for VPS's years ago, but DNS records for two domains got left there, and we've been dutifully paying an invoice of like $1.50 every month for DNS hosting all this time. Nothing against Rackspace, but I want things more centralized, so that is migrated to Route 53 now.
Should probably look at moving all of our domains to one registrar as well, eventually.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f6F1KQhhyM
(I don't like to do anything computer-related on weekends. Too much like work.)
Washing my truck and mowing the lawn.
Technically it’s fresh install, been investing some times to fix my ansible scripts, and it comes handy at case like this.
For my learning purpose will setup k3s on hetzner, for less than $20/m it worth every cent