It's been a while since I drafted a new post on my personal site and I've also landed a new gig at an amazing company called Auvik.
Auvik is an interesting company that does primarily Network Management, but also Server Monitoring, Endpoint Monitoring and SaaS Management. What's funny is that I found out about Auvik via their promotions both on Reddit and Instagram where if you sign up for one of these services you receive a free Ubiquiti Switch, which, for me was awesome because I run my entire home network on Ubiquiti hardware. I've been working here since November and it's a pretty amazing place to work. Great people, great challenges, great leadership and perhaps most importantly, No Assholes!
There are other principles laid out in The Auvik Way™ but my favourite is this one. These are the primary facets of Auvik's culture and business.
As for the website, since I ran my MSP business and hosted WordPress websites on WPEngine, I quickly built and ran this blog there until a fairly substantial price-increase caused me to ponder why I might pay $600+ CAD a year to host a personal blog. Yes, WPEngine is a phenomenal host, and if your business runs a WordPress based website, I'd highly recommend you host with them. Since I no longer run my personal business, and this is a basic blog, it was time to find something cheaper, a bit more secure, reliable and FAST... Enter GhostCMS.
I did have a version of this site built in Ghost a few years back, but I didn't have time to keep my theme updated and the developer of the theme (not me) had essentially abandoned it. Now that I've found a solid theme developer who does updates on the regular, it's time to move back to a staticly generated site on GhostCMS. It's also insanely easy for me to immediately start writing blog posts with Ghost, so expect much more content to land here very soon!
