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# Some AoI News - AoI Updates #1
- URL: https://artofinfra.com/aoi-updates-1/
- Published: 2025-08-22T09:41:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-22T09:41:55.000Z
- Description: Take a peek at what's coming up with the site and me personally! There is a little surprise on the way and what better way to announce it than here(?)!.
- Author: Dan Jones
- Tags: Newsletter

This is the first time sending out a newsletter or any content of this form, but I just wanted to take a moment and explain the latest around Art of Infra and what's in store.

## Host Move

We successfully moved our Ghost blog on 22/08/25 to a new host (AWS Lightsail) to remove it from other projects/ servers I'm working on. This is to prepare for expanding Art of Infra with new projects on the horizon.

Initially, it was a bit of a pain to fully understand how moving from our non-standard setup (curse me for trying to be smart and *dockerising* Ghost CLI) and move/ migrate content to a completely new setup that now falls in line with Ghosts new v6 and docker formats. 

After reading up on the basics, and with a bit of back and forth between ChatGPT/ Grok, the actual migration took less than 5 minutes. 

During this changeover, members have been migrated over *seamlessly (he says)* and it seems everything works as intended. With this change, we changed how the structure of admin domains is presented, *which we should have done before,* and enabled us to better cache the platform for improved performance. 

![](https://artofinfra.com/content/images/2025/08/image-4.png)

You get some cache, and you, and you!

I'll go deeper into the technicalities of the caching setup in a future post.

## The Future

In the coming months, we'll be releasing new web-based tools, some of which are listed below, and some of which are kept behind closed doors until we're ready to talk more about them. 

- Expanded Subnet designer/ calculator
  - The [existing calculator ](https://calc.artofinfra.com/?ref=artofinfra.com)was just a test bed to see what we could achieve and the complexities behind the project. We're set now to expand on this with a move into more interesting spaces.
- Visual AWS Network designer and subnet allocator
  - With the existing subnet calculator, an idea popped up to visually display this information, but allow further design and service implementation, visually.
  - On top of this, I want to have the ability to then export the designs into **native CloudFormation** (and potentially Terraform) later down the line.
- TTFB Testing
  - During the initial testing of the old Art of Infra host, I was using TTFB testing a lot. Testing performance is such an important step when creating platforms/ blogs to ensure your community and potentially customers can access your site quickly and efficiently.
  - We plan on implementing a TTFB testing platform for **premium members** of Art of Infra, allowing probing from multiple continents to give you a wonderful bird's-eye view of how your website is responding to requests, globally.
  - There will also be a free implementation, but only to allow the TTFB probing for a domain name every 24-48 hours.
- *And more....*

## Packets, Please.

Our weekly newsletter "Packets, Please" will launch for the first time next week. 

![](https://artofinfra.com/content/images/2025/08/packets--please.webp) 

## Packets, Please

Packets Please is your weekly dose of the best in cloud and networking, handpicked news, major outages, protocol drama, deep dives, and the most interesting self-hosted projects surfacing from the web. Whether you're wrangling BGP, building out your home lab, or just want the signal without the noise, this newsletter delivers the packets worth reading.

[Subscribe now](#/portal/signup/free) 

## Thank You's

I want to shout out this week's new paid subscribers for supporting me. It means a lot to be able to do what I do and enjoy it. By supporting Art of Infra, you're directly supporting me and my mission to make **technical infrastructure** *great again/* **accessible** and easy to understand for everyone.

This shout-out goes to our very first paid subscriber, **Miro**. 

Thank you very much. It truly made my evening to find out we had a paid sub! Appreciate you and thanks again!

## Side note - But not so very side note

I've kept this super-important bit of information on the down low. We're expecting our firstborn, **Billie**, any time now!

So while I'm *impatiently* waiting for her arrival, I'm writing out posts, like this one, and finding little projects that need a finishing touch on them.

![](https://artofinfra.com/content/images/2025/08/IMG_3706.webp)

Isn't she cute..

The due date for our glorious new form of life is... this weekend. So.. With that said, things will get pretty hectic (I think) for a little while but all for the better. 

Expect future posts to be written by her, and I can only assume the reader base will be a lot more engaged as she'll take her mothers quirkiness and creativity ;).

❤️