My windows server died and took my recipe app down with it
Yo yo yo, whats good. It's Digital Dylan coming back at ya with another word vomit from my last two brain cells. A couple days ago, I woke up at 2am to the worst sound a Windows computer could make, the death beep. Blaring louder than my alarm, I had to get up and yank the power cord out of the computer before I crawled back to bed. This Windows computer that turned into a cuckoo clock in the depths of the night was an old computer that my family used. I, being the technology hoarder I am, have kept it for the past 5 years or so. A couple of months ago, I finally found a use for it. I turned it into a local host machine to host the recipe database website that I had been working on (recipes.dylanastrup.com). This worked out perfectly. I got to learn about local website hosting, networking, DNS management, and (the best part) I got to host it for free. I didn't really have a better spot to put it, so it ended up next to my dresser, a solid 5 feet away from my sleeping setup. ...