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If you are a moderately technical person there are also very low effort solutions that allow you to self host static sites from Jekyll/Hugo totally free. Eg I h

If you are a moderately technical person there are also very low effort solutions that allow you to self host static sites from Jekyll/Hugo totally free. Eg I haven't been a professional software engineer in ~5 years and I could get up and running in ~60min. The biggest issue tends to be that you need to write in Markdown with Git. I advocate for this everywhere because my satisfaction is so high. IMO Wordpress' biggest advantage is that the growth marketing community really knows how to tune it and make it sing for common use-cases. If you're going to have a team running growth strategies on your blog you'll be able to hire a strong team to run SEO, inbound marketing, and whatever else you need. It's boring technology in the best sense.

hinkley 6y ago
In the time since I was last active on Wordpress, the ads have gone from barely there to "I don't like this". I suspect for active users that they boiled this frog slowly, but to me it is not acceptable. Unfortunately running servers for free is also not acceptable. I think the tech community needs to discover Co-ops. That we haven't already I blame in part on our aversion to hobbies, which is where most of my exposure comes from.