As of September the 20th, my site is hosted on Microsoft Azure, more specifically an Azure Storage account, using the Static Website feature! By making my site have a static front-end, the need to run it on script-enabled web-servers is gone and it can run on pretty much any host you can think of. Also by removing access to the dynamic scripts (WordPress back-end), the site’s attack surface decreased to 1/10 on an imaginary scale.
On a warm summer day I noticed my central heating was on, which was odd to me. After looking at some of the heating elements, it turns out a thermostatic valve was broken. Now would a good as time as ever to make the heating smart, but how? With help of the cloud?
Enthusiastically I looked at all the products I could use to refit my heating system into a per-room cloud controlled system. One can evaluate these products just like you would consider a traditional home remodel: applicability, ease of use, design and cost. These days however there seems to be another dimension/factor to this equation. We used to buy remodeling products at the home depot and use it for dozens of years without ever looking back. When was the last time you worried about a valve you installed ten years ago? These days we have to consider if something fits in our digital environment and how long the product will function within this everchanging techworld.