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Observations on New Hosting

After having the site on the new host for a few days, I’m still exploring the newness. So far, it is mostly good. I need to try more goodies and features. One “goodie” may please visitors here….a staging area where I can play with things without annoying everyone.

One negative thing is when I edit a published post, the page won’t render correctly until I tell the error message that pops up to attempt to recover the page. It seems to deal with the actual block editor. Maybe I need to try the TinyMCE editor and see if this clears up. I’m more familiar with the Gutenberg Block Editor, however. Really, as long as it recovers the page, it is nothing more than a hiccup to me. 

Google Insights complains that the site renders slowly. Even if I empty the cache and open a new browser to load the site, it is tons faster than the previous host. Plus……I don’t see the cached pages while logged in….still….it loads so much faster than the previous host’s cached pages!

Blocks are identified and created a little differently here. Probably, if I explored further (which will happen before long!) I’ll probably find that another block “creator” for lack of better term, is in use. At least the extra Gutenberg, etc. block plugins are not at war with each other. I still feel that is why that earlier issue was two caching plugins trying to do their work and messing things up. I may use the staging area to play with the caching capable plugins and see which one is faster without breaking anything again. It still is a mystery why the Edge and Chrome issues only happened on one computer. the second Windows machine and my Linux laptop browsers never missed a single step.

Anyway, this is how things stand at the moment.

Pictured is Shadow keeping her eye on me and the camera about a decade ago.