Huibert-Aalbers.com

Now that I am happily retired, I am working harder than ever. Among the things I have done is modernizing my web site, which had many issues. The main one was that it had been designed before the first iPhone had been launched and, as a result, wasn’t designed for mobile. Even though most of my software is built for either the desktop (macOS) or the back-end, there was no justification for not upgrading it.

The new huibert-aalbers.com site has been completely rewritten in React.js and is fully responsive. I still use WordPress for my blog but at least I am on the latest version, running on a modern PHP version. In addition to that, my website’s source code is now on a private GitHub repository, which will simplify updating it in the future through automatic deployment. In short, I am now doing everything I used to tell my customers they had to do.

I have also switched to a new hosting provider that hopefully will allow me to reach a wider audience. In the past, I was always hitting CPU and bandwidth limits with Lunar Pages (now HostPapa) and that forced be to use very aggressive traffic filtering measures that saved me money but made my site unreachable for some users. That should no longer be the case.

Now that I have completed this important preliminary task, I can finally get back to my coding projects.