This morning, really a few times over the last few days, I’ve had this rush of nostalgia for the days when I was leasing a Rackspace server.
For some reason it’s really attractive…the freedom & possibility of being able to put up whatever site or idea came to mind. Want to make something in Ruby on Rails? Just install it & build it!
Of course as I said the other day, I could turn my back on it for maybe a month or so (it felt like) before one of the WordPress sites was down, but the server itself didn’t get clobbered. I think I’m not remembering all of the nuisance work I had to do.
Having just signed with WordPress.com there’s a voice in my head that’s saying that putting sites back on a self-hosted server is like wanting to get back together with an old meth-addicted girlfriend not because of the sex but because she managed the finances so well.