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 @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 @BenMosior
It’s only low in the value chain at very low traffic. You give up a good deal of power/control in return for “free” bandwidth on those services. I actually prefer the legibility of unbundled services. Aligns incentives correctly for them to do the management part right.
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Replying to @vgr @BenMosior
have you considered netlify? the work to convert to a static build tool may not be worth the future cost savings, but their pricing / service is pretty great imo
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Been playing with it to explore exactly such options. I think it’s the future. Just not here yet.
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Replying to @vgr @BenMosior
where do you see the biggest holes for your current need?
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