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I think you may underestimate how much of a hassle WordPress is for people who are in tech the industry but not technologists themselves. I have what should be
by patio11 11y ago
I think you may underestimate how much of a hassle WordPress is for people who are in tech the industry but not technologists themselves. I have what should be, by 2015 standards, a blog with a small level of traffic very predictably on every blog post. It broke several times a year, catastrophically, due to out-of-the-box settings of Apache/PHP on a 2 GB VPS. I threw thousands of dollars of engineer time at that and, more recently, $2k or so a year of hosting costs to avoid having to play amateur sysadmin at 3 AM because Jimmy Wales had tweeted a link to me.
"A textarea which you can tweet a link to that doesn't break" is a product people want to buy, either with money or with the social transaction costs of adopting Medium as your main writing presence. (I cannot conceive of why a serious author would do that but then again I write more on Twitter than my blog these days so...)
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- minimaxir 11y agoWordpress.com and Tumblr, the destinations for startup/tech blogging before Medium (especially Tumblr), do not crash under pressure either. ...huh, that's the first time I've thought of Tumblr in years. I guess Tumblr really is dead after Yahoo bought it.
- mschuster91 11y ago> I guess Tumblr really is dead after Yahoo bought it. Kids these days use it to swap emo/selfharm/anorexia/weird porn pics. It ain't dead yet, but mostly is to us "older generation" ;)
- hkmurakami 11y agoTumblr definitely used to crash for me back in 2010/2011 when some of my posts got about 30k views.
- dennisgorelik 11y agoWith almost 600M monthly visits, Tumblr does not look like dead. At least yet. http://www.similarweb.com/website/tumblr.com http://www.similarweb.com/website/tumblr.com
- soared 11y agoI agree wordpress is a lot more of a hassle than medium. Wordpress is way more powerful and I think medium fills a different niche. What kind of problems were you having? I've never experienced downtime or critical issues with tens of wordpress deployments.
- tptacek 11y agoI feel like he answered this question in the comment you're replying to. He deployed it on a 2GB VPS --- this, a thing that basically renders one of a couple hundred HTML documents out of a database --- and when Jimmy Wales tweeted a link to his blog, it crashed. I also feel like this is a problem that approximately everyone in tech is aware of. Most of us can fingerprint the blog software you're talking about with the string "error establishing a database connection".