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Part 31: Welcome to my new virtual home!

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By whatsuphome | 10:00 AM EET, Wed January 04, 2023

TL;DR

I migrated my blog from LinkedIn articles to a dedicated website at whatsuphome.fi to gain full ownership and control over my content. The new platform offers easier browsing, scheduled articles, custom functionality, and the ability to transfer content

New year comes with new ideas, so I decided to move my blog from LinkedIn to a dedicated website, whatsuphome.fi. This week I'll write about the rationale of my move.

LinkedIn articles did serve my blogging purposes quite well. However, now that my home monitoring thing has become a real thing, it was time to setup a real domain for the blog. 

But why?

A real domain and a dedicated content management system do become with apparent benefits.

  • It's much easier to browse around the content for me and the users
  • The articles won't get lost to LinkedIn stream
  • I manage and own all the content, so it's trivial to transfer from place A to place B
  • I can extend the functionality of this site to cover whatever I want
  • I can create scheduled articles to make my life easier
  • I can automate stuff much easier

As I've been busy building this site, no new home monitoring content for the week, unless it would count that I'm monitoring this website.

Web scenario screenshot showing response time and download speed
So far so good, but on the other hand I am the only user here. Let's see what happens when all three regular readers of mine will cause a visitor surge.

 

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  • Allowed HTML tags: <a href hreflang> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote cite> <code> <ul type> <ol start type> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <h2 id> <h3 id> <h4 id> <h5 id> <h6 id>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
I migrated my blog from LinkedIn articles to a dedicated website at whatsuphome.fi to gain full ownership and control over my content. The new platform offers easier browsing, scheduled articles, custom functionality, and the ability to transfer content

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