I think I’ve been unconsciously negatively prioritizing traffic growth on ribbonfarm. The marginal cost of traffic (overages on my hosting plan) is not worth the marginal value of new readers. It’s a kind of stock buyback. Growth without a good idea driving it is a net liability.
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Replying to @vgr
What are... overages? You pay for bandwidth???
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Replying to @HiredThought @BenMosior
Err... yes? Don’t see the joke. Managed Wordpress is sold by bandwidth tier. The alternative is either low/no control, getting in bed with Medium, or wasting a lot of time on admin.https://wpengine.com/plans/
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I'm wondering why you have to care. Would squarespace or wordpress dot com ever make their users think about bandwidth? It's so low on the value chain that anyone doing that to content creators is behind the curve, imo...pic.twitter.com/az7tvUYxXe
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Replying to @HiredThought @vgr
wp dot com's business pricing is cheap, has parity with managed hosting, and doesn't ask you to give a shit about things you shouldn't have to care about https://wordpress.com/pricing/
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Replying to @HiredThought @BenMosior
I’ve done my own cost-benefit analysis and am confident I made the right decision with wpengine 5 years ago
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Replying to @vgr
There's something here I want to poke at, but you seem happy, so...
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Replying to @HiredThought @BenMosior
Where do you host? I can't tell. Yeah, I'm very comfortable with my choices. Your sketched value chain of longform blogging is basically not so much wrong as wrong for my style. Your value chain works for blogging as a means to another end.
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Replying to @vgr
I think the way I phrased that probably seemed passive aggressive (on re-reading), but that wasn't my intent. Meant more like... we could have an interesting discussion, but you don't need it, so it's all good.
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Didn't strike me as passive aggressive at all :)
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