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Not sure what the case is with Medium but with Wordpress you are better off hosting it yourself so you have full control of everything. $99 a year seems excess
by dazc 10y ago
Not sure what the case is with Medium but with Wordpress you are better off hosting it yourself so you have full control of everything.
$99 a year seems excessive but, I guess, for those uncomfortable with self-hosting it may be worth it?
- sp332 10y agoI wouldn't recommend running your own WordPress unless you're willing to update plugins on a moment's notice. Lots of plugins have security holes and once an exploit is in the wild, mass hacks of WordPress blogs are very common. If WordPress hosts it for you, they will close the holes much faster than you can.
- mrbill 10y agoIt's quite easy to install a plugin that will auto-update all of your plugins for you, and WordPress itself auto-updates by default now.
- gtf21 10y ago$99 a year (<$10 pcm) for someone else to handle my problems doesn't seem that much if the service for which I'm paying is important to me. Sure, I can self host things, but I've learnt pretty quickly the the extra pain in keeping things up to date, and maintaining them in general is simply not worth my time.