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The practical details behind this site — the stack, the tools, and how to support the work.

How This Site Runs

Evolving Views is a WordPress site hosted on CloudPanel. DNS is on Cloudflare, CDN on CloudFront and DigitalOcean Spaces, email through Lark. I’ve run this site on just about every CMS over the years — Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, and various SaaS platforms — but WordPress on a straightforward VPS with a clean panel is where I’ve landed. Simple, stable, and cheap enough not to think about.

Previous setups included CyberPanel with OpenLiteSpeed on CentOS. The OpenLiteSpeed vs Nginx debate is, in my experience, overrated. If your traffic is high enough for the difference to matter, you have bigger scaling options to reach for than swapping web servers on a $12/month VPS.

Writing

Most content is drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by me before publishing. Longer pieces often start here and may also appear onMedium. Quick takes (Viewlets) are the native format of this site — short links and commentary that I used to post on X but now publish here first.

Support This Site

If you find the content useful, there are a few ways to help:

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Referral & Affiliate Links

These are “at no additional cost to you” referral links. I receive credits or a small commission; you pay the normal price.

If you spot other referral or affiliate links elsewhere on the site, they follow the same principle.

Contact

For consulting inquiries or a conversation: Schedule via Calendly

For everything else: @evolvingviews on X