2020-03-01 - Moving on 
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 Back in 2008, I was browsing around looking for a VPS solution, one
 which  I could  use to  keep a  few files  sync'd, host  a website,
 nothing too complex.  By happenstance, I came across  an offer that
 ovh were running, which provided a vps that could do all the things
 I wanted at a low-low price, so I signed up on the spot.
 
 Fourteen  years later,  and I  was still  on the  same server.  I'd
 upgraded the debian version over  the years, from lenny to squeeze,
 wheezy and jessie, but to all intents  it was the same kvm slice on
 some server. Unsurprisingly, ovh finally decided that the users who
 were there on this pre-2010 plan  would have to upgrade or move on.
 I was  still on spinning metal,  all their current offers  use SSD,
 for example.
 
 I looked elsewhere, but the offer ovh were prepared to make to keep
 me on their service was just too good  to pass up. I got a new vps,
 at the same price, with double the RAM, a better `processor` and as
 much ipv6 address space as I could shake a stick at.
 
 The one fly in the ointment  was that it wasn't possible to upgrade
 my old plan in place. I asked about the place, and was delighted to
 find a  few simple scripts to  make the move happen;  reading those
 made me realise that I had the abilities to make it all happen, and
 I came up with a few twists and  tweaks of my own. I *think* I have
 everything done properly,  most of the work involved  moving my old
 blog, something I increasingly don't even use!
 
 Doing that, and  looking at the accumulated cruft from  12 years of
 computing, was like applying marie-kondo principles to my computer.
 This  stuff doesn't  bring me  joy any  more. The  times when  I am
 thrilled by experiment  are long since past me, I  have a legacy of
 computer using  ability and skill  I've accrued from  hobbyist use,
 there's noone  going to  pay me to  use those skills.  So why  do I
 bother?
 
 I'm not sure I have an answer to that question, I may not ever have
 an answer.