I guess the gist of this is don’t build your castles on other people’s land. Anyone remember Posterous, a blogging platform that got shut down and is now Postha

I guess the gist of this is don’t build your castles on other people’s land. Anyone remember Posterous, a blogging platform that got shut down and is now Posthaven? Posthaven is a paid-only service so unlike Posterous it can keep the lights on for a longer time. But then there is the likelihood of even a paid service shutting down, so buyer beware. My approach is to self host and keep all my blogposts backed up in markdown format. Any images I have are backed up too. Also if you are running a blog, make sure you have the funds needed to keep it up for as long as possible. You may even need a paid CDN if you are serving a lot of images. Cloudflare helps with their free CDN but it’s nice to get away from centralised monopolies such as Cloudflare. Their recent outage has me looking for alternatives.