Why FOL

Failing out loud (FOL) is a new site that I'm trying out to help streamline my writing. I've done most of my writing on talkncloud with a bunch going towards dev.to as part of the AWS Community Builders program. I'll briefly discuss a few things which about the new site.

The reasons

I've been running my own site on AWS for some time. It's been mostly fine, and it's pretty cheap (static s3 site), which is great. However, managing the infrastructure and creating new content takes a bit more time. It's not a huge issue, but with the recent updates to forestry.io and the switch to tinaCMS, I'm a bit over it.

As a member of the AWS Community Builders, there has been some discussion about the new AWS community site. During these discussions, Hashnode was mentioned, so I decided to check it out.

Hashnode

I've previously used Ghost CMS, which is good, but I chose to host my own to save money and take a more hands-on approach. After doing this for over 12 months, I'm now switching to Hashnode. This is a fully managed site without any infrastructure for me to manage, but it does come with a cost. I decided to opt for the premium site option (thanks to a sweet deal).

As you may have noticed, I've also registered a new domain name. Most of the content on my other site is about solving problems and sharing my thoughts. This site will be pretty much the same (or maybe not, I'm not sure yet 😂).

More soon

I won't be migrating any of the content over, and I won't be taking it down either; based on the stats, it's still helping folks. My main focus with this site will be broader engineering "challenges" (fails), not limited to cloud. I'll be looking to tweak the look and feel (no idea how). That's it, short and sweet. More content is on the way. This new platform should make it easier for me to publish content, so I'm hoping 🤞 to share more soon. If you want to be notified, you can subscribe? Or not? 🤷.