Since my last failed migration to S3, the idea was still bouncing around in my head to migrate to a solution for static site hosting. The Changelog had a great podcast recently highlighting Render.com. I did run into one issue in the build process but support quickly pointed me in the direction of a community post that had a working solution. Overall I am impressed with the experience and will enjoy exploring more of their features.

I just spent several hours trying to migrate this hugo blog from a linode droplet to linode object storage. In the end I failed, but I learned a lot in the process. The linode docs were helpful, but I think they were a little bit out of date. I was able to get the bucket setup and the blog deployed there. I ran into some problems with my DNS. I use Route53 for my domain and I had to add a CNAME record to my blog. For some reason this wasn’t working as expected. DNS appeared to be resolving correctly but was unable to access the blog. Continuing on I attempted to configure a certbot certificate for the domain. After manually placing the authentication file in the object storage certbot was unable to locate it. I think it was at this point that I also realized that there would be no automated certificate renewal. I would have to manually run certbot and place the new files in the object storage bucket.

A fresh batch of servers is scheduled to be released for WoW Classic on November 21st 2024. I’ve been playing WoW since its release in 2004 though the Cataclysm expansion where things started to die off for me. I’ve touched each expansion here and there since then but havent spent much time with them. I feel like the game lost itself somewhere along the way. But I am excited to restart my journey for the 4th time (vanilla, classic, SOD). To help add a bit of a twist to this reset I am tinkering with the option of running a 5-party multibox setup. I’ve played a couple of hours on the era servers with a paladin, priest, and mage and it seems doable. Blizzard has banned the use of input broadcasting software which made the enitre process much easier. But I have a working concept utilizing a couple tools such as ShiftWindow to automatically position my wow clients. And other addons he first being EMA which provides a lot of in-game utility for managing quests, party, etc.