Moving up the stack
There's a bit of cognitive dissonance seeing Jason Hoffman blogging on wordpress.com. Dr. "we admin servers so you don't have to", king of the DIY-ers, is going with a hosted solution. (Okay, sure, TextDrive is responsible for a fair portion of WP.com's infrastructure, but...)
Is that the natural way of things, now? People moving from hosted applications to hosted domains on servers and back to the hosted application space? Will I get sick of the control? Of fighting spam? Of responsibility for security? Hmm.
Yeah, early days. (Is it even really him? Dunno at this point.) But it's an interesting space to watch...
Is that the natural way of things, now? People moving from hosted applications to hosted domains on servers and back to the hosted application space? Will I get sick of the control? Of fighting spam? Of responsibility for security? Hmm.
Yeah, early days. (Is it even really him? Dunno at this point.) But it's an interesting space to watch...
Comments
Kelly
@ 21.01.2007 02:38 London/GMTSick of the control? Never. I've tried hosted blogging, Vox recently, and grew tired of having a lack of control. It's either a guy thing, or a geek thing, or both.
Still, I'm curious at the why of separating content from the Joyent blog.
Jason Hoffman
@ 21.01.2007 21:08 London/GMTI'm also jason.backpackit.com, jason.projectpath.com, jah.vox.com, jasonhoffman at gmail, jason at yahoo, jasonhoffman at yahoo, even had a comp typepad account at one time, etc etc etc.
Despite hosting the initial stack of stuff for wp.com and doing stuff like regularly playing pool with Matt, I'd honestly never really used it. Thought I should. It's not separating out content from Joyeur or anything else. Just simply trying yet another hosted app of a friend's, and seeing what's up.
I still run wp from svn trunk on a container of mine, jasonhoffman.org is still this old textpattern install sitting around and gathering dust, and I have no problem putting up personal things on a company blog.
adam
@ 21.01.2007 21:50 London/GMTAch, those are fair points. I have accounts at many similar hosted applications (and still have a blog limping along at LiveJournal, reaching back to mid-2000). I guess it struck me because WP installs (though, granted, not always maintenance) are about as easy as sneezing. Anyway, I always enjoy seeing what Jason has to say, and look forward to seeing stuff written without the Joyeur hat on.
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