I’ve wanted to host a blog for a bit now, and was leaning towards using a WordPress host. I’ll pay them a little fee, my small little blog gets on the ‘ole Interwebs, the hosting company gets the headache and I get to focus on writing about stuff.
However, with the easy access to cloud technologies and architectures, this would be a lost opportunity. I’ve had to build and run an ecommerce platform before and it’s work. Even if you automate a lot of stuff, you still have the operational issues such as having to work thru a bad patch, preventing malicious traffic, scaling traffic, browser differences, etc.
I don’t want that level of a headache, but I figure I can create a site that can be highly scalable, fully automated, but at a basic wordpress hosting price point. I’ll write up the details and gotcha’s in a future post.