Pardon my dust – re-homing 21 years of blog content of christianheilmann.com

I’ve been a bit silent here lately. The reason is on the one hand life and issues with that but also problems with the hoster of this blog, specifically the SSL certificate. I’ve spent some fun hours on the phone with helpdesk and it’s still, well, complicated. That’s why I finally took the plunge and will change and move this blog, for the first time. This blog uses WordPress and it was a great friend over the years. It also was hosted on MediaTemple, who were amazing people to work with and made it simple to buy domains, have them secured and keep the engine up-to-date. Then MediaTemple was bought by GoDaddy and I was forced to buy a new hosting package and out of a sudden getting the SSL for my domain became expensive and a pain in the lower backside. Unneccesarily so, as letsencrypt and others made buying your own certificates and installing them by hand redundant. That doesn’t stop GoDaddy though from charging you for every step on the way. WordPress also has its troubles and I…