The Site Got a Rebuild
If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been running OSMS.io on WordPress. It worked — but the honest truth is that every spare hour I had was going toward keeping it safe, not growing it. Patches, plugin updates, hardening the login page, reviewing access logs. WordPress is a constant maintenance surface. The moment you skip a cycle, you’re exposed.
When your limited time is already split between a day job, a family, track days, and content creation — spending it on plugin audits isn’t acceptable. That’s time that should go toward building, driving, and publishing.
As of this month, OSMS.io is now running on Astro 5 deployed to Cloudflare Pages. Here’s what that means in practice:
- Faster. Static-first, edge-deployed. The site loads from a Cloudflare edge node closest to you.
- Cheaper. Cloudflare Pages has a generous free tier. No monthly hosting bill, no surprise scaling costs.
- Simpler to maintain. No WordPress plugins to update, no database to back up, no PHP vulnerabilities to patch.
- Open. The entire codebase lives in GitLab. Push to
master, Cloudflare auto-deploys. That’s the whole pipeline.
This isn’t just a technical change. It’s a statement of direction: OSMS.io runs on the same open-source tooling philosophy it covers. We don’t run black boxes. We run things we understand and can share.
A Conversation Worth Having
Last month I had the chance to sit down with Jon Katz, founder of DriversLink.io — a platform he’s building specifically for driver development and coaching in the amateur motorsports space.
The conversation was good. Jon’s coming at the problem from a software angle — structured coaching, driver data pipelines, connecting instructors to students. OSMS is coming at it from the hardware and content side — data acquisition, real-world installs, honest gear coverage. Different approaches, same community.
What struck me most is how underserved the amateur motorsport space is when it comes to decent tooling. Most of us are duct-taping together solutions from the off-road, drone, or cycling worlds because nothing was built specifically for HPDE and time attack. That’s starting to change.
I’m not ready to announce anything from that conversation — it was exploratory and that’s how it should be. But it’s encouraging to see other builders focused on the same gap. If you’re in the community and building something in this space, reach out. The more people solving real problems for real drivers, the better.
What’s Next
- DNS cutover to the new platform is imminent — if you’re reading this on the old WordPress site, check back soon
- More hardware content coming, including a full Draggy GPS telemetry guide alongside our existing RaceBox coverage
- Season track schedule is shaping up — VIR dates are on the calendar
See you at the track.
— Dan @ OSMS.io