The site you’re reading is now statically hosted on AWS S3. Because the only thing that doesn’t change is change and my site doesn’t change that much so I decided to change it to something that doesn’t change. - me I decided to switch Notebook Heavy from a dynamically generated, traditional blogging engine, to one that is written offline and statically rendered. The reasons are both financial and operational, so read on to find out more about what I did and why.…

Over at Vinyl Deals, I use CloudFlare to handle some caching and firewall issues. Like any good server admin, I check my logs to make sure the app is running smoothly so people can find those sweet record deals. But sometimes I notice a strange uptick in traffic on the back-end that doesn’t show up in the front-end analytics. Usually, this means it’s just a bot. Often it’s Googlebot, which I’m totally fine with.…