{"id":14554,"date":"2022-05-10T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14554"},"modified":"2022-05-10T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:55:42","slug":"tech-admin-braindump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14554","title":{"rendered":"Tech braindump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been updating this blog, in a behind the scenes kind of way. I&#8217;ve also been carrying out some overdue database admin and upgrades to stuff like the php. And I&#8217;ve been thinking about the structure of the blog content. I&#8217;ve recently condensed the many post categories down to two. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking that even two might be too many but, for personal reasons, I want to keep a tag on the sailing stuff. So one school of thought is that I hive off all the sailing\/Good Mood content off to a dedicated sub-blog; that would give me an platform from which to keep track of the stuff that I need to write up into the ship&#8217;s log. I tend not to write up day-sailing entries *on the day*. And that reminds me, I haven&#8217;t even blogged last Thursday&#8217;s passage yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the hosting agreement is due for renewal in a month or so. Since the start of this year I&#8217;ve gradually been shedding all the websites I&#8217;ve been hosting\/working on for other people. Now I&#8217;m down to just two, and I might let my geekblog go, now I&#8217;m no longer doing actual geek stuff any longer. If I did, it would just mean hosting this domain and the sub that this blog runs in. These reductions mean I could shop around for a new hosting arrangement. I could, of course, host the domain and sub on the NAS. I&#8217;ve successfully done this in the past, and it worked quite well. I stopped hosting on the NAS when the number of domains and websites grew, as I took on hosting work for other people\/organisations. But now they&#8217;ve all gone&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently upgraded our bandwidth. Even though we&#8217;ve only got copper to the house, we switched providers from Vodafone to TalkTalk and, in switching, we managed to upgrade our broadband from 75Mb\/s download to 155Mb\/s download. Needless to say I&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on the download speed to ensure it keeps at the level we&#8217;re paying for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, ending a 25-year relationship, I&#8217;ve switched my mobile phone to a GiffGaff SIM-only deal which is three times cheaper than Vodafone, yet gives me significantly higher download limits. I&#8217;ve got another mobile device that I want to take away from Vodafone but they&#8217;ve completely cocked things up their end, and even talking to them about them sorting out their horrible cockup is an ordeal and I just don&#8217;t have the mental energy for that battle this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been updating this blog, in a behind the scenes kind of way. I&#8217;ve also been carrying out some overdue database admin and upgrades to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}