A funny thing about infrastructure is that nobody really notices it until it breaks. Servers, databases, witnesses and bots all belong to that strange category of things that are simply expected to keep running forever without anyone really thinking about them, which is probably the biggest compliment infrastructure can receive. If people aren't talking about it, chances are you're doing something right.
Yesterday, TheBBHProject.com quietly moved to my own server. No flashy announcement, no countdown timer, no dramatic "Version 2.0" launch. Just another migration that most people probably won't even notice, and honestly, that's exactly how I like it. Infrastructure isn't supposed to be exciting. It's supposed to disappear into the background and simply do its job.
What makes this migration a little more special to me isn't the technical side of it, although I certainly enjoy that part too. It's because The BBH Project is actually where my own development journey on Hive really started. Years ago, the BBH tipping bot had stopped working correctly and, at the time, I wasn't planning on becoming "that guy who keeps building Hive bots". I just wanted to help fix something that had become part of the community. So I repaired it, thinking that would be the end of the story.
Apparently it wasn't.
Somewhere along the way, one small bug fix slowly evolved into writing my own bot framework, building more and more tools, running witnesses, maintaining servers, creating Hive Earnings, and somehow ending up with an entire little ecosystem running on infrastructure that I now manage myself. Life has a funny habit of turning "I'll quickly fix this one thing" into several years of side projects. Developers will probably recognise that sentence immediately... and maybe feel slightly attacked by it.
Once I had my own framework, it no longer made much sense to maintain multiple codebases, so the BBH bot eventually moved over as well. That already made life considerably easier, and now the website itself has joined the party. Everything runs together on the same infrastructure, which isn't particularly spectacular from the outside, but behind the scenes it makes quite a difference.
It means:
Better performance
Easier maintenance
Much more room for future development
More flexibility for adding new features
Complete control over the entire environment.
None of those things make for exciting marketing copy, but they're exactly the kind of improvements you appreciate when you're responsible for keeping everything online.
I've always liked The BBH Project, not because it's the biggest project on Hive, or because it's trying to be everywhere at once, but because Bradley has simply kept building, year after year. The project has survived bull markets, bear markets, hype cycles and all the blockchain drama we've seen come and go over the years, and I think that kind of consistency deserves solid infrastructure behind it. If I can help provide that, then I'm more than happy to do my part.
People sometimes ask me why I keep building things on Hive, and honestly, I rarely set out with the intention of creating something big. Most projects start with a bug, a missing feature, or someone saying, "Wouldn't it be nice if..." Before I know it, there's another repository on GitHub, another bot running somewhere, another server quietly doing its thing in the background... and my coffee has gone cold again.
The real story isn't "The BBH Project moved servers."
The real story is:
"My entire Hive development journey started because one community bot broke... and years later that same project is now running on infrastructure I built myself."
Some habits are apparently impossible to get rid of.
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