With my trial of Cloudways underway, the first WordPress site that I would test out with is of course my own christopherlei.com. Instead of simply spinning up a new instance of WordPress and simply copying over my old theme files over, I decided to use this opportunity to rebuild christopherlei.com from the ground up. This was more a practice to get back into WordPress development. I would still copy snippets of code and paste them over as there was no reason to re-invent functionality.

christopherlei.com at this point, really only serves two purposes. One is a landing page that would essentially acts as landing page for my branding. Secondly, which is the bulk of functionality, is a Custom Post Type of concerts that I attend. If you head on over to christopherlei.com/concert/, this is how I track all the concerts that I attend. With this iteration, I decided to also add a link to each concerts setlist.fm as well as an instagram link to photos I take at the show, but more importantly, a way to access notes about the show or thoughts in the photo description.

Recently, GoDaddy emailed me to inform me that my web hosting would be migrated and that my products may be affected. Having been pretty frustrated lately with the performance of my websites hosted with GoDaddy, it was time to finally look at new hosting options.

My initial thought was to simply switch to WP Engine, as I was already familiar with their platform using them at work. However, looking further into pricing, it was going to cost close to $1000/yr, which didn’t make a whole of of sense.

Having done some research, I finally settled on Cloudways.