> You are just paying for the machine/cloud instead Same with Hashnode > no hassle managed solution of Wordpress, not the self hosted, cobbled together versio

> You are just paying for the machine/cloud instead Same with Hashnode > no hassle managed solution of Wordpress, not the self hosted, cobbled together version. It's almost the opposite: the self-hosted version is literally several less steps than the hosted solution. No payments, no credit cards, just download a zip, unzip it and you're done. Remember the audience here is developers and technical folks, not regular users.