| I've been seeing WP's failings more and more, especially as Gutenberg keeps adding kitchen sink features to stay cool and trendy. The static site builder is on my todo list. The email list was a plugin on WordPress. I had to grieve the loss, but I'm better now from it. Anyone who cares enough can get an RSS reader, which I've realized advances my techno-political values on software freedom. I'm happy to pay more for web hosting, and that's basically what I did when I migrated. It's not that I'm over-using resources. I didn't start in web development, and have only adopted paying for on-rails hosting as a reluctant desire to meet my essay-making purposes. As far as being a "thought leader" in any sense of the word, I'm really not important: just an essay hobbyist with lots of static content. 2-4 of those essays are controversial, but most of them are useful-but-nonconfrontational crap like how to cook well or how to navigate bureaucracy. In some ways, I represent the ideal shared hosting customer: Very little web exposure, minimal-to-little SEO, paying customer. My opinion is that it was likely a confluence of factors that piled up at once. It's not uncommon for things to work steadily, until they don't. I'm clinging hard to Hanlon's Razor on this one. |