Lesson Learned
I know we’re never supposed to say “never”, but I can’t imagine ever hosting my own blogging engine or platform again. I’m a low maintenance kind of guy. I like to tinker endlessly, but I prefer to tinker with many things, not with one thing. I’m also a simple kind of guy. I don’t need to do much with my blogging engine—just write a little prose, include a little code, maybe post an image now and again. Hosting your own platform for that kind of minimal interaction is like bringing a grenade to a knife fight.
Well, I’m done with that now. This seems like a nice, comfortable, easy-living kind of place to hang out so I’m going to give it a try. For now, I’m just throwing something up to get started. Over the next few days, weeks or however long it takes, I’ll change the DNS settings so that my domain, robwilkerson.org points here instead, I’ll update my feed URIs and slowly try to make this site the truly minimal, low maintenance experience I’m hoping it can be.
Another problem with hosting your own blogging platform is migration when you decide that you’re pretty much done with that. What I have right now simply isn’t in a format that I can easily port from there to here. As such, I’ve abandoned all intentions of moving that content. Until I get all of my ducks in a row, that content will be available at http://robwilkerson.org. After that, I’ll make it available at http://archive.robwilkerson.org. Existing bookmarks should still work, but please let me know if that’s not the case.
With luck, this will be home for a very long time.
Lesson learned.
