Doing some research trying to figure out what the best (and most cost effective) approach would be to creating and hosting this blog, I was quite surprised to see how much things have changed. Not so long ago, my goto approach would be to use a well known content management solution like WordPress or Dasblog, find a web hosting provider or service, and off you go. These solutions are feature rich and pretty much self-eplanatory in use, but as I learned on a previous attempt at doing this, costs money, and can become expensive for a reasonably performant user experience.

I’ve had many intentions of establishing a blog, tried it a few times but never stuck to it. I tend to find it difficult to find meaningful things to share. But in recent times, the more and more I delve back into technology (after being an architect for a donkey’s age), this is changing. I was a developer 25 years ago when things were so much simpler, Visual Basic (ASP), SQL and HTML/CSS.