(Solarpunk village with Netflix vibe. Image generated with FLUX.1 by Black Forest Labs.)
This website is experimental. WordPress was just too slow, and after spending a year snooping around for something different, I ended up back with WordPress. Except, this time things are a little different. I moved to a virtual private server (VPS), and I replaced MySQL with SQLite. The combination of VPS with SQLite seemed to really speed things up. Also, I’m really trying to minimize the use of plugins.
I’m using Hostwinds as my host. I have a VPS (virtual private server.) The operating system is Ubuntu 22.04. The panel is CloudPanel. CloudPanel is free, but you have to install it yourself. In order to install CloudPanel, you’ll need Putty. For FTP, you’ll need FileZilla.
Note: There aren’t any affiliate links on this website.
What’s with the name, Redirect9.Com?
Everything started spiraling downward when I just wanted to do a simple link redirection. It took several seconds for that redirection to happen. I was using WordPress with a cheapie host provider. Then I went on a mission to get good link redirection. I went to use baby websites with only HTML/Javascript on a VPS. This actually worked well but the baby websites were a pain to add content. Anyway, the redirection experiment was redirect9.com. I am reusing that website here without the all the redirection stuff.
I am a retired insurance mathematician. Insurance is mostly math. Somebody has got to do it. Now I’m an American living in Switzerland.