Since my last post, I’ve continued to have some WordPress issues. I called IONOS support, and they were not super-helpful, but there probably wasn’t much they could do. I did as much clean-up on my sites as I could. I deleted a bunch of unused plugins and templates, and disabled a few plugins that I probably didn’t need. The site went down for about an hour, two days ago, but has been fine since. So maybe I’m OK. It’s frustrating when you’re troubleshooting something like this, and there’s no “aha!” moment, just “eh, maybe that helped?” and a shrug.
This has got me considering moving to a simpler hosting arrangement again. IONOS is pretty cheap for me right now, only $9 per month. (I’m not even sure why it’s that cheap. It used to be $14. There was some confusion with the billing a while back, and it landed at $9 somehow.) IONOS has dedicated WordPress hosting that’s not expensive, and would give me more resources, I think, but a little less flexibility. I’ve also considered moving to WordPress.com. They’re kinda expensive, but they do have an $8/month that would probably work for me.
Back on the topic of San Diego Comic-Con: Here’s an article about all the folks who got COVID at the con. And here’s an article from The Beat about “winners and losers” at the con. I’ve seen a few interesting things coming out of the con. Stuff that makes me think “yeah, that’s cool,” but not “yeah, that’s so cool it would have been worth the grief of cross-country travel, COVID, and the cost of travel and lodging”.
I do need to take a vacation this year, at some point, somehow. And I still haven’t figured out what to do about that. But that’s a topic for another day.