I’m writing this as sort of a goodbye to the old and a celebration of what is to come.
In early 2019 we started getting hacked repeatedly and there were several attacks on our server and our then hosting company Hostgator would do nothing unless they were paid an unreasonable sum of money to clean up the malware. It wasn’t just this site but numerous other sites I have and run that were affected.
Mind you, this is something that any host should do and should have measures in place to prevent this type of thing. Especially for someone who’d been a client since 2008. But I digress.
I wrestled with the idea of just letting site go. But I fought to clean up the site. But there were repeated issues leading into 2020. And of course the pandemic hit. By then I was over it. I let the site sit without any desire to continue fighting to preserve it.
Fast forward to 2022 and I’ve decided that instead of trying to save the site; I should just relaunch it fresh on a new server reflecting the new direction I want to go with it.
To that end; welcome to the relaunch of Luxury Standards. A lifestyle website for wealthy men, where we cover the attainable and the absolute aspirational in travel, menswear, automotive, and food and drink.