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I’ve recently written about the drawbacks of self-hosting. In that article I talked about it from a generic and technical point of view. Let’s get more personal now. 😉 Many years ago I was self-hosting Wordpress for my blog, but at some point I realized I was spending more time upgrading, customizing & fixing problems than writing something on it. This situation was so frustrating that I decided to stop blogging many times because I had a sort of internal conflict.

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Thursday, June 8, 2023 →

Flowers in the woods 📷

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 →

An old farmhouse 📷

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 →

It’s time for bookcrossing 📚

Is self-hosting for everybody?

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Self-hosting is great: you control the server, the software & your data. That’s all. Or not? I think there is a lot understimation about the drawbacks related to self-hosting. I self-hosted Wordpress for several years and during that time I had some issues while upgrading it, also theme and plugin conflicts where always behind the corner. Wordpress is a great piece of sofware and very versatile. It is easily customizable, but this can also be a problem once we talk about compatibility.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023 →

A casual shot in the middle of nowhere 🤷‍♂️📷

Monday, June 5, 2023 →

Luckily there is not only Mastodon. I really like that there are different fediverse softwares like Calckey, Pixelfed, Soapbox, Akkoma & Takahe. You can try all of them and pick up the one you like the most. 💛

Monday, June 5, 2023 →

Walking in the countryside 📷