It’s been so long since I ran a website outside of Wordpress or some other content management system I had forgotten how easily portable a static site, built with simple HTML and CSS, is.

You create a directory structure that makes sense. The pages, includes files, media, style sheets, etc and all just sitting there. You point your browser at your domain name and there - it - is. If you want to switch hosting, you copy the same stuff over to the new place, change the DNS settings of your domain name, and it is moved.

If you want to just archive the whole thing, you just drag all that stuff on to an external drive or wherever you want to keep it , and it’s done.

Now, take my Wordpress site. You gotta export a file, set up a bunch of shit with a new provider, and do a lot of database imports and whatnot. I mean, I can do it. But it’s just not as simple. And in general I think simple is good.

What you get with Wordpress is convenience, which is really nice. You can log into your site and work on it from pretty much any computer. Now, I know there are ways to do this from the command line/terminal/whatever, but it’s not as easy. Convenience will go a long way. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of that lot have built their empires on convenience.

So here is a question…

Do I really need to be able edit my blog from anywhere? Is it really that critical. I can take notes from any computer. I can write stuff in .txt format on any computer or really any device. Do I really need to post it right then?