I had a self-hosted WordPress site for my personal blog from 2015 until last weekend, when I migrated Mythical Type to Micro.blog.

The recent drama between WordPress and WP Engine didn’t factor into my decision. For the last few years, I didn’t feel like WordPress was the right fit for my blog. But I didn’t find any alternatives that I liked, either.

WordPress is great for a business site, but it’s too much for me for a personal site. Too many settings. Too many plug-ins. Too much to tinker with and troubleshoot when I simply want an easy way to share my art and writing online. I don’t want to think about which content blocks to use. I want to type, type, type, and hit Post when I’m done.

I don’t like the aspect of managing my own hosting, either. I can figure out a lot of technical things, but I don’t know a lot when it comes to servers and IT infrastructure. It felt tiresome to troubleshoot an issue when all I wanted to do was post on my blog.

Side note: I know the argument for self-hosting is that you have total control of your site. You won’t lose your stuff if/when a platform suddenly goes under. But I don’t buy that argument, because a hosting company could suddenly go out of business, too. So my requirement is that I can export my work and move it somewhere else if I want to. Not that I have to have total control of it.

I’m glad I found Micro.blog and that it’s a good fit for how I like to post online. And I’m happy I don’t have to manage the technical side of websites anymore.