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"Hosting" your own blog takes around an hour of setup for wordpress or github pages. Personally, I use vultr + wordpress for my blog[1], but I have technical ex
by citilife 8y ago
"Hosting" your own blog takes around an hour of setup for wordpress or github pages. Personally, I use vultr + wordpress for my blog[1], but I have technical expertise - it took only 30 minutes to setup and transfer from my previous provider.
Reason I like to host my own, is I control the content, the popups, the UI, etc. If you care about that, host it yourself. Medium is there to make money, we can't fault them for attempting to collect for their service.
[1] https://austingwalters.com/ https://austingwalters.com/
- dbspin 8y agoI hosted my own wordpress blog for several years on various virtual private servers, and was hacked multiple times. Just got to be way too much work to admin the site. I use wordpress.com currently. It's less than ideal, but I think you're underestimating the amount of work required to secure a site long term, rather than simply install one. For most lay users, insuring that their host is keeping python up to date, that the security permissions are correct on each file, and that every plugin installed is 'safe' is more time consuming than it's worth. I'm not up to speed on the state of static site generators, but that's got to be a better way to go for most users.
- ozten 8y agoIt takes 30 minutes plus 9 months of learning DNS, hosting, S3, static site generator, CLI ;)