For me it's not so much about hosting it myself as it is having control of my data. It's a trust issue. I used http://github.com/coto/gae-boilerplate http://g

For me it's not so much about hosting it myself as it is having control of my data. It's a trust issue. I used http://github.com/coto/gae-boilerplate http://github.com/coto/gae-boilerplate to write a few sites which host data objects in GitHub gists. Here's my OpenStack blog which uses it: http://StackGeek.com/ http://StackGeek.com/, and an example of a raw post stored in a gist: https://gist.github.com/kordless/93e491c4880a416907be https://gist.github.com/kordless/93e491c4880a416907be. I still rely on GitHub for keeping my data safe, but most of my code there also lives on my desktop in the form of cloned repos.