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Good advice, but this rant is about the tool not the domain ownership though. You can own your own domain and use Wordpress self-hosted, then find they updated
by quickthrower2 6y ago
Good advice, but this rant is about the tool not the domain ownership though.
You can own your own domain and use Wordpress self-hosted, then find they updated the UI constantly as you upgrade it keep it up to date for - you know - security.
The only way to get the level of control long term is probably sadly a static site generation kind of a thing.
There was a HN post about "software that is no longer changed but still used" as I am paraphrasing and this is an interesting idea.
A GUI blogging platform that ends it's life and stays as-is forever would be cool, even if it lack funky features, maybe you enter the HTML yourself.
- dwheeler 6y agoI agree, you can own your own domain name without having to do everything yourself. Like anything else, if you don't want to do something, hire somebody else to do it. I own my own domain name, and then pay others to take care of my website. I chose a cheap one for now. If I don't like their service, I can move my content somewhere else in the future. I could even have it hosted for free on GitHub, if I'm willing to live with him there constraints on static servers. But I own the domain name, so no one can just take it down without any recourse. If someone decides to stop providing me a service, I can just take my stuff somewhere else. Of course, you have to have a backup of the data, and use tools that are available elsewhere. But that really isn't that difficult. Static sites are really easy to manage this way. If you want something beyond the static site, it's not hard to use tools like WordPress which are open source software and widely available elsewhere. (Be cautious about adding plugins to Wordpress, some of them are security disasters, but at least you get to choose what you use.)