So I got annoyed with Azure yesterday. It's still way too much for what I need. I managed to try to get a cert again this morning, went to work, and the site works properly this evening. Woo hoo. I still don't like Azure much so I'm going to re-host it today anyway.

Basically every framework, as well as a few friends, have reccomended netlify, and a quick glance and it looks good. Simpler than Azure, and all I really need is a small website, not a megacorporation-sized networking ifrastructure. So I'm probably going to go with that. (Thank you Soto!)

I am also rethinking the framework as well. I'm currently using Zola as a static framework, and it's extremely good and simple. But I'm looking at a few other options as I just discovered a huge list of similar packages on Jamstack, and a few of them seem a little more appealing. Turns out Zola is made using Rust, which I don't really have much experience with and don't feel like learning now just to extend a few relatively small things. It's also geared primarly towards it running a single blog-like website (which, to be fair, is ending up as that), but I may want to put a few things on here that might be difficult with that in mind. Some of the other options have support for other languages, plugins, and a few other goodies that I might actually want. So we'll see. I'm tired of namedropping things so I won't mention anything else until I actually decide.

Or I may just play some VR chat and wait another day.

Already did the switch to netlify. That was stupidly easy. It took 15 minutes, and most of that was figuring out some DNS stuff that I misread initially. Just have to wait for the SSL/TLS certs to finish, but that's all automatic at this point.

... actually scratch that, it finished while typing the above paragraph. I'm very satisfied. Deleting everything off of Azure now so I keep things clean in case I want to use that to host a game server or something.