So I was down for a little over a week after I nuked my previous domain and got off of GitHub and Cloudfare’s infrastructure. Even though I appreciate Cloudfare’s CDN, DDoS protection, and bot fighter, I was inspired and determined to take more ownership and responsibility of my personal space online, even though I would have to hit the books once again for the OpenBSD VPS I am renting from OpenBSD Amsterdam.
A little under a year ago when I had the inspiration to write and publish online, I was going through a rough time when my cat had passed in my arms after FeLV activated and steadily consumed her life. During this rough spot, I moved back in with family as my behavioral health was going downhill. In that season of life, I received Christ’s mercy in my suffering and weakness, where His power was perfected in my tribulation. Truly the Lord showed His love for me in allowing me to exit my prodigal lifestyle and return to my senses and come back home with my family.
Gladly though I have recovered a lot and am improving slowly, undoing each bad choice and poor decision I had made over the last four years of my life. As I continued my walk of repentance and denying my flesh, carrying my cross, and relinquishing ultimate control over my life, I actually ended up receiving life and life abundantly as I turned my will to Jesus Christ. That was when I understood what Paul identified in the Father that:
Ephesians 2:10
[10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (ESV)
And as the spiritual breakthroughs and emotional healing continued, I became more confident in who I am in Christ and what the Father thinks of me as I have his Holy Spirit dwelling in me. Therefore I concluded in dumping the old domain not because I outgrew God’s mercy, but the Lord had matured me to a next phase where I live confidently in his design for my life.
As for the web blog, it’s now using Yihui Xie’s XMin theme as I kind of liked it once I got fonts and styling customized. It’s now powered by OpenBSD 7.7 on a VM hosted by OpenBSD Amsterdam who contribute financially to the OpenBSD Foundation.
I genuinely like my current setup more, though it did take me roughly four to five days and nights to troubleshoot and debug my OpenBSD VM which I wasn’t familiar with as much as my Gentoo work setup. The hosting admin actually had to reset and re-install my VM to defaults three times when I accidentally locked myself out with a SSH key that wasn’t supported with my setup, crashed the server a second time, and nearly cooked one of his CPUs at 90 percent load because I messed up a boot configuration. They were very kind and professional about it though, so I highly recommend them.
However, I’m still trying to figure out how to protect a contact email address because I no longer have protection from Cloudfare; until then just import my PGP key from the Contact page and run:
gpg --list-keys