Actually I've seen cases where migrating was just backup-restore, change dns. Still doing that, and testing/verifying everything can certainly eat half a day. [

Actually I've seen cases where migrating was just backup-restore, change dns. Still doing that, and testing/verifying everything can certainly eat half a day. [ed: and note that dump>convert>manually fix>build as done here should be strictly more work than backup/restore - assuming little in the way of nearly plug-ins..]. > And at the end of the day, you still have to deal with WP. Certainly - I'm not saying one should not migrate away from wp - just be sure you make an informed choice... I just now saw this bit in the original article: > The cost of a properly hosted server, combined with the need for a distributed database (...) I'm not sure what "distributed database" means here - but I'm quite certain wp and mariadb/postgres will run fine together on a 5 dollar vps - if something like Dreamhost isn't attractive for some reason. That said - i too would much prefer something like github pages for a blog.