This has taken a while. Much longer than I expected, and been difficult, but ultimately I think worthwhile. For a very very long time, positech’s website (and positech energy’s website) have been hosted in the USA. I think the server was in Dallas, Texas. But I’m not sure, nor did I care. The general assumption back in the 2000s was that most web traffic was from the USA, and to minimize page loading times, you should host your site in the USA, even if like me, you are personally in Europe.
But Lo! It came to pass that in 2025 and 2026 the USA got a new government that decided to treat my own country (the UK) like we are the enemy. I frankly got sick of reading comments from the likes of Trump and Musk that I lived under sharia law in a violent failed state. Especially given our gun crime rates are extremely low compared to the US, and that amazingly, the sharia law meme is total and utter made-up fantasy bullshit. Frankly, I got sick of being insulted by the leaders of a country I was regularly paying money to… and pretty much everyone I speak to here in the UK feels equally insulted and enraged.
I cannot change US foreign policy. I cannot change who the US public decided to vote in as their president (or effectively new King). But I do have choices as to how to spend my money, and given that its entirely up to me where I host my websites, I have decided to pick my own country (England!) as the best place. Frankly I do not *trust* any US web host any more. So I looked around and then found a web host called Krystal.
Krystal seem to have two selling points from my POV. One: They are in the UK (Woohoo!) and Two, all of their servers are one hundred percent powered by renewable energy. As anyone who has read my blog for a while will know, I like that! Granted, I am not exactly in desperate need to reduce my carbon emission, given that I built and own an entire solar power station, but if there are companies out there doing the ight thing regarding sourcing energy, I want to support them.
I have no idea where Krystal get their energy supply from, but in my fantasies, its coming from the wind farm right next to Trump’s scottish golf course.
I try to avoid being nakedly political on my blog. Thats not what its for but the ENTIRE reason for moving webhosts was to reduce my links in some small way, to the USA because of the current US govt, and I think it only fitting and fair to say so. The site currently has a bunch of DNS and domain name related problems, but I am sure they will get sorted out soon! Also I have some cool stuff to announce, once everything has finished moving and this blog is definitely working.