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There's a lot of people for whom the marginal effort to migrate off Wordpress to a static site generator isn't worth it on the off chance that once every 3 year
by notafraudster 6y ago
There's a lot of people for whom the marginal effort to migrate off Wordpress to a static site generator isn't worth it on the off chance that once every 3 years they write something that goes viral enough to take down their hosting.
I agree that if your business model is to write a viral blog post for your startup or to get hired at a cool place then you should be worried about downtime, but if anything on my server goes viral and it crashes, I... don't care. It's just not a concern.
- centimeter 6y agoWhy are you putting your content online if you don't care if people can read it? I think it's great when people really like my writing, and I felt sad when I had a crappy slow blog that couldn't handle HN traffic and a bunch of people were unable to read my content. I don't make any money off my blog or anything, but it kind of defeats the purpose of having it if 90% of prospective readers are shut out. (And, indeed, probably 90% of traffic occurs in the intervals when I front-page HN or a popular subreddit.)