Oh Bluehost, how I hate you. I already blogged long ago how I got suckered, but distinguishing my hosting from my blog tech stack is important; they are two separate things!
Recently, my posts weren’t notifying subscribers due to the cron not running. So, I installed WP Control for observability into the system to see what was going on. All this did was confirm that my email notifications from MailPoet weren’t going out. But why? And how did you know this was a cron issue, Straker? Claude!
After reading about ScarletInk’s dissatisfaction with Ghost and migration to Substack and a former colleague’s dissatisfaction with Medium, I figured it was time for me to do another update on Wordpress (.org, not .com) and how it’s going.
My honest summary is I love WordPress and can’t imagine me changing to another platform. Ghost was the one platform I had some FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) about, but after reading the ScarletInk’s post, that FOMO has been replaced with JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out).
Earlier this year, I started blogging for the first time on Medium. This is great, I thought. So easy; why haven’t I done this before? But then I quickly ran into issues with the Medium paywall. Ah; there’s the catch, I realized. While I am not against Medium having a paywall, it didn’t make sense for my use case – I didn’t want any of my stories to be behind a paywall of a company that wasn’t mine, after all!
