Moved my blog to WordPress.com

I moved my personal blog to WordPress.com. I used to self host. Why did I change?

1. To start to repay WordPress.org for their fantastic product which they have always made freely available (i’m paying them now).
2. Outsource some aspects of security. It’s always better to have someone with thousands of customers and a lot to lose, thinking and acting on security for you. Self hosting is higher risk in my opinion.
3. It’s one less thing I have to manage. I want to consume and produce content, not manage applications. While I self host you could call me a hypocrite, and fairly so! I’m always telling people to use software as a service or cloud services where you aren’t hosting your own software or applications.
4. They have some really nice themes that take seconds to implement. I like to change themes regularly to give things a fresh makeover. Blogs who maintain the same look and feel get a bit stale, but that’s just me.
5. People who do stuff for free are just plain cool in my book, they are better than me, much better, they are the selfless unsung heroes of the tech world that we will one day remember as the pioneers who took the risk, rebuffed the capitalist system and went in a direction others were too scared or too selfish to take. Yes they did build a financial model around community to make it viable, and that’s ok. I’d rather them do that and survive.