The history of the site

Several sites web preceded the creation of j.hommet.net, notably in this order : IDEALOGEEK.fr, PC-Core.info, Actual-IT.info and ComputerZ Solutions.

« BEFORE CMS »#

The use of a CMS was not yet common currency in 2008. So to start having « his » personal blog, it was necessary to create sites with HTML, PHP and other web languages. Frameworks did not exist really and the only available were either paid or reserved to developers, not accessible for me.

I built a few sites manually, mostly in HTML, PHP, then finally a database minimized, but which answered perfectly to the needs.

I tried to make a flash website but it was a waste of time. It was too heavy, too complex, too much time to spend on it and not adapted to my needs. Until 2011, it was only a matter of many unsuccessful attempts, but very formative.

IDEALOGEEK.FR#

My public first website under my name, using the CMS WordPress, which taught me so much! In late 2011, some ideas were brewing and WordPress was my go-to CMS. Very laborious at first, the organization was complicated even if the ideas were not lacking.

It was 2012 when IDEALOGEEK.fr was born. I was a first-year student in BTS IG (SIO today), I wanted to design a website for me to my peers and some geeks I knew through World Of Warcraft. It was also a way to show what I knew in addition to standing out from others. I wanted to create a space for sharing courses and tutorials, have simple modes available anytime and anywhere.

The website was then quickly set up, and content was published rapidly. Driven by extraordinary motivation, I spent my evenings and often part of the night writing articles related to past my computer science courses and procedures used in class. I also had the opportunity to think bigger in terms of virtualization, as technologies and hardware were growing as fast as time passed.

At the peak of the website’s popularity, there were over 4,000 unique visits per month (according to Google Analytics)! A nice score for a “small” website that wasn’t really supposed to extend beyond the circle of friends originally. The “news” category was the most visited, followed by “tutorials.”

Over time, the motivation faded, weighed down by a click race between IDEALOGEEK.fr and one of its “competitors,” which was Neoflow.fr. The competition between the two sites was intense, and the popularity of IDEALOGEEK.fr began to decline. The content became poorer, I was running out of time, and the website was left as is without any changes, eventually ending up as a simple .xml backup file. One of the major flaws of this website was the lack of a graphic charter. I constantly searched for themes, logos, colors, icons… but without success. A lot of time was dedicated to this, preventing me from focusing on writing. This time was lost, alas.

With the hosting contract and domain name expired, I no longer had the reason nor the desire to have a website. In 2013, everything was over. The IDEALOGEEK.fr project was extinguished.

In 2026, the IDEALOGEEK.fr website is back, but not by me. It was taken over by a company that posts various news and some tutorials.

PC-CORE.INFO#

A few months passed without blogging, no website to manage, no tutorials to prepare, no news to write, complete emptiness! And this emptiness was unbearable to me: I didn’t know what to do, I wanted to write, learn, and share.

On a whim, that’s how I decided to create a new site, again with WordPress. Having the backup of IDEALOGEEK.fr with me (as well as the article photos), the site was quickly set up. Many articles ended up with broken links, deplorable syntax, or a layout that needed to be completely redone.

However, there was a problem. Besides the theme, which was again a major issue, I still don’t know today what didn’t please me, but I couldn’t go any further with this website.

At the end of 2013, PC-Core.info was already scrapped!

ACTUAL-IT.INFO#

After a brief stint on PC-Core.info, I didn’t want to repeat the blogging experience… Especially after two failures (it must be said). So I was once again idle… But not for very long (to the great dismay of some of my friends who will recognize themselves… =D) !

Once again, a new site under WordPress was set up, reimporting articles (and comments) and installing the Sahifa theme. The articles followed one another but didn’t really resemble each other. The cruising pace was maintained, four articles per week, often more, sometimes less, but in all cases, the site was active.

Initially installed on shared hosting, I quickly migrated the site to a dedicated server at Online.net. There was, however, a problem: security. Not having made this aspect a priority after receiving the dedicated server, an open door was visible to everyone. Blinded by my obsession with nginx optimization, I hadn’t paid attention to access rights in a folder, and there, disaster struck.

In September 2014, due to 777 access rights on a folder, malicious code was injected and executed, rendering the site unusable. All traces of backup had been deleted and no backup had been externalized. Youthful error…

Miraculously, an .xml file dating from two weeks before the hack was found on my hard drives. A partial backup (only the content was saved, no images) but a backup nonetheless. Caught up in the momentum, I decided to cancel all subscriptions, servers, and others. Everything was stopped/cancelled following this hack. I was fed up.

The only thing that pleased me was the attacker’s failures. The dedicated server and its security measures held up without problem against the attacks. The plugins, theme, and WordPress had no “exploitable” vulnerabilities. I saw the list of attacks carried out, they were numerous, but unsuccessful. Except for the simplest one: going through the door that was already wide open.

COMPUTERZ SOLUTIONS#

After Actual-IT.info, a new project bloomed (once again!). Always driven by blogging, I decided this time to start from scratch, still with WordPress, but by taking all my articles one by one. A significant amount of work, but it was well worth it. It allowed me to rediscover some articles that were « hidden » in the mass of already present posts, while improving them and correcting errors (syntax, short codes…).

In 2015, the ComputerZ Solutions website was officially launched! Thanks to the internet wayback machine, here’s what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20150722181931/http://computerz.solutions/ .

And then another idea that kept me occupied was the domain name. I wanted something different. And that’s how ComputerZ Solutions came out, with a domain name in « .solutions »! At launch, the domain name caused problems in some forms (‘invalid address’), but overall, it was pleasant to be different.

EDIT 2019 : important update for the site : we stop WordPress and switch to Ghost! The reason is rather simple : the desire for novelty, testing a platform and a new tool, reducing complexity to focus on the essential, the content. Plus, the site is no longer on a physical machine that I manage, but in a Docker container in a small virtual machine at a hosting provider.

The year 2022 marks the end of ComputerZ Solutions (CZS). Professionally, I no longer have time to devote to this project, and personally, I wanted to focus on a more personal project : J.HOMMET.NET. CZS worked correctly, but the brand identity no longer matched my aspirations. Like the previous sites, there was also a problem with the graphic charter.

Today, J.HOMMET.NET#

We are in April 2022 and I realized that I wanted to have freedom to focus on writing, without worrying about layout, design, SEO, etc. Ghost is then the tool that frees me from these concerns. Plus, I wanted to have my name, publicly, to claim my ideas, my reflections, my tutorials, my news, my projects, etc.

Here is the new departure : https://j.hommet.net/nouveau-depart/ .

From 2022 to 2025, I used Ghost every day. Some updates were capricious, but in general, the site worked correctly. The speed of Ghost is incredible, the site is fast, the design is simple and pleasant, the SEO is optimized, everything I wanted. For the first time, I no longer had a problem with the design, I found a theme that perfectly matched my aspirations.

In 2026, I write this text. But this time, not in Ghost! Driven by an insatiable curiosity to test new technologies, I turned to Hugo, a static site generator. A bit of strength, since a database update of Ghost was necessary and caused a problem.

Now I know what I want, where I want to go and how I want to get there.

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