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Wordpress and self-hosting. (feddit.org)

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[–] rtxn 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He can't. Mullenweg is just having a really bad, prolonged meltdown over a hosting company making (morally questionable, but legally clear) money and threatening to burn it all down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's kinda funny because although I enjoy selfhosting, I wasn't going to self-host wordpress until I saw how ridiculous the prices are through Wordpress.com for any actual functionality. I've got a decent VPS and have paid for a couple of key (to me) "premium" 3rd-party plugins and it's still costing far less than it would have hosting it all through Wordpress.com. Their pricing seems frankly astronomical to me (or did when I was making my decision.)

I did dig up this article which has helped me to understand the situation a bit better FWIW: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-org-wp-engine

[–] Evotech 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's your use case for WordPress? Anything you couldn't just make in a short amount of time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Although I am a geeky techy, I'm not a web developer, so I'm sure there are other ways to do what I do that would be easier for someone who was. I just have a basic blog and newsletter with signups, and an audience far, far smaller than the number of characters in this comment. :D (That's OK though, I'm on an intentional slow growth curve.)

I don't even go out of my way to drive people to it because in some ways I'm still deciding what I want to do with the space. The "premium" plugins I pay for are to help handle spambots and signups/newsletter stuff. (and there are free plugins to help with those if I really needed to stay free) Wordpress.com sends me "30% off ACT NOW" emails every so often for their hosted packages and it doesn't even come close to competing. They want you to pony up $$ to get access to any worthwhile plugins at all from what I can tell, and I'm too much of a dyed in the wool Linuxy "you aren't going to tell me what I can and can't do" kind of guy to have any tolerance for that.

Edit: Just looked again now - $300/year to reach a tier that allows use of plugins. Nah.

[–] Evotech 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Idk, with ai I made a static html site in about an hour today that looks somewhat decent. Just to play around a bit with Cursor / claude.ai. Hosted on cloudflare pages (free). pipeline from GitHub.

I'm not a developer either, but was fun. I can add more to it later.

Figured I don't really want or need comments anyway So no need for a database or spambot detection :p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Totally fair, we all have our different usecases...