My own blog/website is now 22 years old! It began in my university dorm room, though back then, it wasn't really a blog. Instead, it was just a loose collection of pages. I added a blog to it much later when blogging became fashionable. I still update my website occasionally [1].
Back in 2001, a chance encounter with Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS) on a Windows 98 system introduced me to the client-server concepts essential for creating and hosting a website. I used PWS to serve my website for the first couple of years and then moved on to IIS. At first the web pages were just individual HTML pages loaded within an HTML frameset. The frameset presented common headers and sidebars for the website. Later I learnt to use ASP (the classic ASP) and add dynamic content such as quiz, guestbook, etc.
By the final year of my university days, I had gained sufficient Unix/Linux knowledge to confidently replace Windows with Linux, IIS with Apache, and ASP with PHP.
These days, I am serving my website using Nginx from a Linode VM running Debian stable. The website itself is generated statically using my own little Common Lisp program [2]. All of the content and layout is simple handwritten HTML. The Common Lisp program combines the content HTML with the layout HTML and writes the final HTML pages that are then served via Nginx.
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My own blog/website is now 22 years old! It began in my university dorm room, though back then, it wasn't really a blog. Instead, it was just a loose collection of pages. I added a blog to it much later when blogging became fashionable. I still update my website occasionally [1].
Back in 2001, a chance encounter with Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS) on a Windows 98 system introduced me to the client-server concepts essential for creating and hosting a website. I used PWS to serve my website for the first couple of years and then moved on to IIS. At first the web pages were just individual HTML pages loaded within an HTML frameset. The frameset presented common headers and sidebars for the website. Later I learnt to use ASP (the classic ASP) and add dynamic content such as quiz, guestbook, etc.
By the final year of my university days, I had gained sufficient Unix/Linux knowledge to confidently replace Windows with Linux, IIS with Apache, and ASP with PHP.
These days, I am serving my website using Nginx from a Linode VM running Debian stable. The website itself is generated statically using my own little Common Lisp program [2]. All of the content and layout is simple handwritten HTML. The Common Lisp program combines the content HTML with the layout HTML and writes the final HTML pages that are then served via Nginx.
[1] https://susam.net/
[2] https://github.com/susam/susam.net