Bye bye Wordpress
So... Wordpress has gone to war it seems. Now I don't use WP Engine but moves like the current ones do make me worry about maintenance of Wordpress itself, especially as I run it on my own server. When I consider that along with the fact that there is a constant stream of hacking attempts against my server many of which are attempts to get into the Wordpress installation I had to re-think my use of it. To make matters worse since we got upgraded to FTTP I ditched my rented VPS and moved all of my IT stuff to here. So my Wordpress runs on a box downstairs and I would rather it did not become a doorway for tinkers to get in and tinker. Plus the fact that for my little blog a full installation of Wordpress and its associated mysql database, where every page is rendered after the data is fetched from the database server is rather wasteful on resources. Also the theme I used incorporated Google fonts and I then needed a plugin specifically to get rid of those fonts. I would rather not be the reason someone's browser connects to Google for anything. So here…
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