OK so I’ve set up my new wordpress site, got rid of the other one I was paying for and just not using at all. It’s not been a difficult thing to do and it’s well worth selfhosting these things. Plenty of places out there to get instructions and it’s not too difficult. I run mine on an unraid server in a docker container with a seperate database just for the wordpress site.
My only real issue was rtying to get the bloody thing to be avaiable out there in the inter web. I had issues with my Caddyfile and then with the url for wordpress, it’s one of those you have to change it at the same time! Luckily I use DBeaver to connect to my databases so I could manually change them to the correct url’s and it’s all working just fine.
I use Mars Edit to do my writing on my laptop to keep it all nice and simple. Not quite WSWG but close enough and it’s pretty decent to be honestI think the biggest thing this time is not to look at stats for the site and just let it grow naturally.