The author expresses their love for building side projects and explores different hosting options, starting with WordPress and eventually moving to AWS. They mention the complexity and cost associated with hosting on AWS, including the risk of surprise bills. The author highlights their discovery of NearlyFreeSpeech (NFS), praising its prepaid model that offers complete control over financial liability. They detail the migration process to NFS, including setting up servers, daemons, and proxies. The author concludes by stating their satisfaction with NFS, preferring its simplicity over AWS’s complexity and high costs. The content also includes the author’s experiences migrating various websites to NFS and provides a detailed migration guide.
https://travisbumgarner.dev/blog/leaving-aws