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+<p>So the date on this post may be wrong by the time you're reading it,
+mostly because I'm not sure when I'm gonna be done setting up the
+server, but I hope it's today. However, you probably will have noticed
+(if you visit my website somewhat regularly) that a lot has changed.
+It's the migration I was talking about a few posts ago.</p>
+
+<p>To start, let me explain the change in framework: something I've been
+thinking about lately is the vulnerability of my blog posts, which
+before were stored in a database file on my VPS. If for any reason I
+were to lose that data, I'd lose all the blog posts. I was also
+frustrated with the complicated way of posting new articles that I had
+setup: I'd write the post in an HTML file on my computer, and then I'd
+login to my hand-made dashboard on my website, to post it there with all
+the relevant fields. It seemed like a lot of double work that could be
+easily simplified.</p>
+
+<p>Luckily for me, due to recent developments with my VPS host, I'm
+moving services, and I figured I'd take advantage of this to start
+fresh. So I decided I'd port my website to a static site generator.
+Originally I was going to use one I had recently created, called
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/naortega/sssg" target="_blank">sssg</a>, but
+as I was developing some of the more complex features for it, I
+discovered that a simple SSG already existed with enough features to
+give me what I needed:
+<a href="https://git.codemadness.org/saait/file/README.html" >saait</a>.
+It's quite minimalist and yet it provides me with the features necessary
+to host all my website's content, such as my blog and news feeds. Now
+it's all statically generated, so all you're pulling is pre-compiled
+HTML, and not generated on the spot by a PHP script as it was
+before.</p>
+
+<p>So, since I'm excited about all the changes I have to my website, I'm
+going to explain the setup (for the most part).</p>
+
+<p>First, as I've already explained, my website is generated statically
+with saait on my personal computer. I will likely be creating a git
+repository where I can host the source for you all to see, since that
+will also allow me to easily edit my website code from my other
+computers. Second, I synchronize my website's generated files with the
+server with RSync. As for the HTTP server I'm using, I've chosen to use
+lighttpd for simplicity's sake.</p>
+
+<p>I also now have two different modes of newsfeed: Atom and RSS. I also
+noticed, as someone who uses newsfeeds for a lot websites, that I enjoy
+those that have the content in the newsfeed itself so I don't have to
+open up the browser, but can read it right inside my newsfeed
+application - which, as I mentioned in a previous article, is newsboat -
+so now for both Atom and RSS feed the entire content of my blog posts is
+in the newsfeed item itself. If this does present a problem later on, I
+can change it to only give the description, which will make the XML
+files lighter to download - currently the Atom feed is 468KB and the RSS
+feed 440KB, so I don't think it's too much to download.</p>
+
+<p>All in all, I'm quite happy with the way things have turned out, so I
+hope I'll be able to keep this setup for... at least a few more
+years.</p>