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Hm. Interesting. I can certainly identify with not wanting to deal with the hassle. But I don't understand reducing and simplifying by using two separate servic
by joebadmo 16y ago
Hm. Interesting. I can certainly identify with not wanting to deal with the hassle. But I don't understand reducing and simplifying by using two separate services owned by two separate companies that aren't you to do the same thing that you were doing.
What happens when/if posterous/flavors.me dies (as a company)? At least with Squarespace in that instance you could transparently migrate everything somewhere else, right?
Identity just seems like a weird thing to outsource, especially when it's really not that hard. I'm a proficient, but basically technically lay person, and my setup is to have a static html file on a web host and a blog page that points at a tumblr blog, which I'm thinking about switching to wordpress.
But I'm not and never have been on Facebook, so I'm probably an outlier.
- m0nastic 16y agoI was a little hesitant at first, so I don't know if long-term I'll regret doing it. If flavors.me dies (which is absolutely a possibility, as I have no idea what their long-term plans are), then I lose the static about page that I've set up. If I was already going to be hosting my email and/or blog myself then I agree, setting up one additional static landing page wouldn't be a lot of overhead. But once I decided to get rid of my email, it started to get harder to justify paying for a VPS just to run a blog and a main page. It's sort of a cascading effect of outsourcing.