Look like the Jekyll default post, but it’s a little more I guess. After more than three years I found some time update me digitial infrastructure to a more serverless way.

Two weeks ago Amazon had their re:Invent conference in Las Vegas and I was watching the keynote and some sessions with quite some interest. After launching/anncouning AWS Lambda in 2014 serverless computing is getting more and more a thing and this years re:Invent made it more and more clear to me. So more about time to get rid of my old vServer and to move forward to a serverless solution …

Okay, let’s be honest: My email account has long moved to a public email provider and is no longer hosted on my own server. As a matter of fact it never was, the sole purpose of Postfix was to provide email greylisting for improved SPAM protection. It worked quite well for a while, but my email provider can handle it very well own his own. The secondary reason to build an email facade was, that it was fun and I wanted to try it …

Leaving me and my Wordpress blog on the vServer. I already looked at some offers like Blogger or Wordpress.com, but I wanted my domain to come along. But I also didn’t want to migrate a MySQL database, web server and Wordpress to some different provider.

Then, last week I tried Jekyll and was convinced. No more need for a database and stuff, just generate the pages. I am using Wikis for quite some year now and github.com, I already have some stuff there, so free hosting!

The most complex part was migrating the data out of the Wordpress MySQL, seems I misplaced the root password for the instance running the Wordpress :-), but after migration the dump on my local compute the jekyll-import work reasonably well and getting all the ugly HTML to Markdown was an easy job.

So, let’s see how this works out, and … “Welcome to Jekyll!”