Thanks! And it’s super easy to export your content to a WP.com blog if you’re tempted to make the switch.

Here’s two recent examples of why. The other day this blog was broken because of memory issues on the (shared) host. WordPress these days needs quite a bit of memory to run, and I ended up spending hours googling to find out how I edit my php.ini file to give WP more memory. I cannot be bothered with this.

Secondly, right now I cannot schedule posts on this blog. A couple of weeks ago it was working, now it isn’t. I could spend hours googling to find the solution – but I can’t be bothered.

A little while ago, I was a hobbyist WP hacker, and I liked playing around with it and trying out the latest plugins etc… but it’s got too complicated now and is beyond my modest tech skills. So I use WP purely as a content creator now, and for that, WP.com probably meets every need I have. Hell, I use the default WP theme on here, so it’s not like I’ll be missing out on much!

I think a few years ago there was a bit of a stigma that not having a self hosted site looked unprofessional, however I think in the age of Twitter, Facebook et al where people are more comfortable with using online tools to express themselves, there is more acceptance of going down that route.