My site is built and hosted on a Raspberry Pi. I researched the most economical solutions, taking into consideration both setup and maintenance.

It is a labor of love. I originally built the website on a WAMP stack, then migrated it over to the Raspberry Pi (LAMP stack) where I finished customizing it. Migration from two different stacks proved to be challenging. While some WordPress plugins worked better than others, in the end, I retained the basic, popular and more reliable plugin tools and did the customizing directly on the Raspberry Pi stack.

8-13-2023 Update: I switched from a MicroSD card to SSD and increased write speed from ~20MB/sec to ~246MB/sec.

Benefits:

• No monthly maintenance costs
• Low upfront equipment cost
• Opportunity to get a deeper dive with Linux
• Opportunity to learn about setting up web server security
• New learning experience with Raspberry Pi
• Figured out how to nest WordPress sites without using the multisite feature.
• New learning experience with testing migration processes between different stacks.
• Low cost scaling