alt Hacker NewsI think just the $5/mo or so for hosting a WordPress blog and then the $20/yr for a domain name is prohibitive for many people—-not necessarily financially but like ‘oh great now I gotta deal with this’. So that’s why Medium in the past and now Substack etc end up as fallbacks
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pitchlatte • last Tuesday at 6:00 PM
given that wordpress.com is just managed hosting i wonder if other providers can bring that cost down. installing it yourself is trivial though because of Softaculous, and web hosting is much cheaper.
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carlosjobim • last Tuesday at 6:10 PM
Yes, that's what it is. Even worse if you want to get paid through subscriptions. Although Ghost blog might be a good middle option.
A custom domain and GitHub hosting has been fine for me. You pay the time cost of setting up a static site, but I’d take that over Wordpress. Writing articles is a markdown file and a push. If you need to draft in private, keep it offline. It gives me a place where I can keep a resume and a portfolio, I control the design and I don’t pay for traffic. You don’t even need a custom domain name.
A different kingdom to be sure, but you can always pack your bags and push the repository elsewhere. There’s something quite pleasing about having everything handled in git too.