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List of reasons why this is very narrow minded: 1. You still own your work if you post it other places, just not the platform. 2. You own the platform if you

List of reasons why this is very narrow minded: 1. You still own your work if you post it other places, just not the platform. 2. You own the platform if you host it on a VPS, but not the hardware. 3. You own the hardware if you host it at home, but still, only license the software which runs it. 4. Many more. You want real advice? Ignore this guy, and just start. Most of you people concerned on where you should start blogging/pocasting don't even start because of all the choices and the fearmongering (like this guy). Just write something and hit send. Not doing that is the only guarantee of failure. Everything else is fixable.

bastawhiz 4y ago
Exactly. Whether you control the underlying operating system (or network connection) or just the content at the application layer, you're still relying on someone else. If you don't have good content to share, it's moot anyway. At the end of the day, any service trades control for convenience/access. I run a podcast hosting service that's slightly more expensive than hosting yourself with WordPress. Paying me to host your show gets you a platform that's had 99.999% uptime for years. You don't need to think about renewing your domains or certificates or installing WordPress/Apache/nginx/Ubuntu/whatever updates. You don't need to think about how to get accurate analytics or filtering out automated requests from your log data. You don't need to worry about your show being protected by a single auth factor. If your time is worth $60/hr and my service is $10/mo, is your podcast taking more than two hours a year of your time (minus hosting costs)? Some people don't want to make that tradeoff and that's fine, but it's simply a better choice to find a third party that you trust to do stuff for you.
- galleywest200 4y ago
  > If you don't have good content to share, it's moot anyway. Who even cares about this? Everybody's first few blog posts suck. It is better to be prolific than perfect.
  - bastawhiz 4y ago
    It's better to have content than no content and a blog that is hosted in alignment with your principles
quickthrower2 4y ago
Own the domain, point people to the domain, use .com or something else solid, have a backup of the content and urls, and the rest doesn’t matter. Too technical? Use one of the platforms that makes the domain registration and linking it up easy.

bastawhiz 4y ago

Exactly. Whether you control the underlying operating system (or network connection) or just the content at the application layer, you're still relying on someone else. If you don't have good content to share, it's moot anyway. At the end of the day, any service trades control for convenience/access. I run a podcast hosting service that's slightly more expensive than hosting yourself with WordPress. Paying me to host your show gets you a platform that's had 99.999% uptime for years. You don't need to think about renewing your domains or certificates or installing WordPress/Apache/nginx/Ubuntu/whatever updates. You don't need to think about how to get accurate analytics or filtering out automated requests from your log data. You don't need to worry about your show being protected by a single auth factor. If your time is worth $60/hr and my service is $10/mo, is your podcast taking more than two hours a year of your time (minus hosting costs)? Some people don't want to make that tradeoff and that's fine, but it's simply a better choice to find a third party that you trust to do stuff for you.

galleywest200 4y ago
> If you don't have good content to share, it's moot anyway. Who even cares about this? Everybody's first few blog posts suck. It is better to be prolific than perfect.
- bastawhiz 4y ago
  It's better to have content than no content and a blog that is hosted in alignment with your principles

quickthrower2 4y ago

Own the domain, point people to the domain, use .com or something else solid, have a backup of the content and urls, and the rest doesn’t matter. Too technical? Use one of the platforms that makes the domain registration and linking it up easy.