Back and forth and back again. Too many years ago to count, I set up a server under my desk. It was initially intended to provide better availability and control than my school's email system, and ended up serving homepages and files for folks as well. It was also a time when understanding a particular technology meant I could provide a real benefit to those around me with other priorities and skills. Time went on, and the cloud began to take shape. Like many I adapted along with it taking advantage of a better cost profile with less hassle. Things like availability, bandwidth, data durability & security all started to painfully converge on what was really a hobby. Things got serious, and it really stopped being fun in that form. Over time I went further, resulting in basically a custom domain mapped to Google Workspace. An amazing hands-off solution by every measure. Scalability, core security, availability -- not even a question. Much like the internet starting to gain tracti...
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