How I Migrated My WordPress Blog to Hugo on Cloudflare Workers (And Why You Should Too)

After years of running my tech blog on WordPress, I finally pulled the trigger and migrated everything to Hugo — a blazing-fast static site generator — hosted on Cloudflare Workers. The result? A site that loads in milliseconds, costs nothing to host, and requires zero server maintenance. Here’s exactly how I did it, what went wrong, and what I’d do differently. Why Leave WordPress? WordPress served me well for years. But as my post count grew to 278 articles (mostly VMware VCF guides with dozens of screenshots each), the cracks started showing: ...

March 24, 2026 · 6 min · Cosmin

License a Standalone ESX 9.0 Host with a Private License File (When the Trial Expired and vCenter Won’t Boot)

If you upgraded (or deployed) ESX/ESXi 9.0 in a lab and let the evaluation expire, you can end up in the classic chicken-and-egg situation: your vCenter is a VM, but you can’t power it on because the host is no longer licensed. With VCF / vSphere Foundation 9.0, licensing moved away from the old 25-character keys and into license files(normally handled through VCF Operations), which is great… until you don’t have VCF Ops up yet. (VMware Blogs) ...

February 23, 2026 · 5 min · Cosmin
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