After 27 years of self-hosting, blogger shutters his own servers
genmon · x · 2026-11-05
The Interconnected blogger shut down his self-hosted servers after 27 years, archiving sites to static HTML on shared hosting and GitHub Pages. He recounts running MOO servers, email/DNS and speech synthesis over the decades—including rescuing a failing drive with ice cubes in 2004. The trigger: a fresh wave of vulnerabilities made keeping legacy PHP/CGI apps secure no longer worth the time, even with Claude speeding up patching.
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