Hello, world!

2025-03-01, Hits: 163

Hello! Today, I am very excited to announce that I have finally finished writing my own CMS for rayi512x.com!

Ever since I got a domain name and a VPS (a long time ago, by the way), I have always dreamt of having a website where I can easily put content into. I have been neglecting this server for probably 90% or more of its lifetime.

Let's dive into why, and how did I make this.

Why?

I know there are tools like WordPress that could've made my life tens of times easier, but I prefer doing it my way, and the reason is pretty much the same as to why I like Arch Linux so much. Arch Linux allows me to have full control over every part of my system.

It's not like using WordPress stops me from having full control over my system, but it means that I will have to learn new concepts brought by WordPress itself to use it correctly, just like learning how to use a linux distro with a pre-installed desktop environment.

In other words, I am too lazy to learn new stuff, so I would rather stick with something I already knew.

Another reason would be, I got a lot of days off school, so I better use this time rather than wasting it.

How?

The technologies I used are very simple: plain old HTML, CSS and PHP. No frameworks.

See, I once had this crazy idea of writing this in bash with CGI. It was only an idea though, I did not actually work on it.

Some time later, I discovered PHP and MySQL during a short webdev bootcamp. It gave me another possible way on how I may be able to achieve this. Fast forward, here I am now.

Okay, thank you for reading my first ever blog post on my first ever CMS. See you next time!