I think you can self-host WP in a pinch as well. I’ve been chatting with someone from WP trying to better understand what it is offering. It does seem like I’m missing a lot of simple knowledge of how to use WP better, and it’s possible that WP is ‘good enough’ if things were explained properly, and then there’s a bunch of deep functionality and customization potentially hidden. Yet that doesn’t do any good if I don’t use it.
I have self-hosted WordPress and can confirm that it is possible (and not even very hard).
The big downside is security (but you can mitigate this substantially by using a managed host such as NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, and hosting only your WordPress blog on the site in question).
I think you can self-host WP in a pinch as well. I’ve been chatting with someone from WP trying to better understand what it is offering. It does seem like I’m missing a lot of simple knowledge of how to use WP better, and it’s possible that WP is ‘good enough’ if things were explained properly, and then there’s a bunch of deep functionality and customization potentially hidden. Yet that doesn’t do any good if I don’t use it.
I have self-hosted WordPress and can confirm that it is possible (and not even very hard).
The big downside is security (but you can mitigate this substantially by using a managed host such as NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, and hosting only your WordPress blog on the site in question).