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This post makes no sense to me. Ghost offers paid hosting, Wordpress, for example, can be self-hosted, but self-hosting is almost never SELF-hosting, as in havi
by drdaffey 10y ago
This post makes no sense to me.
Ghost offers paid hosting, Wordpress, for example, can be self-hosted, but self-hosting is almost never SELF-hosting, as in having your own actual servers at home.
It's almost always a case of you using a hosting company...this post just makes no sense to me.
- tomhoward 10y agoThe writer means you should publish your content under your own brand/identity. That is, your own domain name, website design/branding, etc. The point is that if you create popular content but host it on Medium (or Facebook, or LinkedIn, or Google Plus, or any other branded content platform), you are giving that platform's brand free promotion, when you could be using that exposure to better promote yourself. The trade-offs are the cost of professional hosting, ensuring that the platform you choose has enough capacity to handle any traffic spikes, and designing/maintaining a site design that is as readable/usable as the established platforms.
- qznc 10y agoGhost is just like Wordpress in terms of self-hosting: http://support.ghost.org/getting-started/ http://support.ghost.org/getting-started/
- banachtarski 10y agoyea you didn't get it. the author is talking about self-publishing, not self-hosting.
- CM30 10y agoThe difference is that if you host with an actual hosting company, you can move your content if/when you grow dissatisfied with it and lose no traffic or rankings. If you're on something like Facebook, YouTube or Medium and don't have a custom domain... well you're just screwed if things don't work out.