[ianlevesque]

This guy has the right idea. My immediate thought when I visit a site and get "Couldn't establish database connection" is "why are they hosting this themselves?" Most people, tech savvy or not, don't need to be managing this stuff themselves.

[rellik]

FWIW, I just recently switched to self-hosting. I was on blogger before, but moved because I want to retain complete rights to my content.