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After Years of Self-Hosting, It's Come to Posterous

I've finally done it.

I've moved my personal blog, the very epitome of my online identity, over to a hosted service.  I've been using Posterous since the Summer '08 and I've been increasingly impressed with its feature set, ability to stay agile and focus on remaining simple while still implementing new features and backend pieces of flair.  

I resisted moving to a hosted solution for my personal domain even after I've moved my data, my email, my calendar, my RSS reading, etc over to hosted solutions (mostly Google).  I view this as a symbolic move of cost and attention cutting in order that I may focus on the important things.

It's good to be here.

Thank you, Posterous. 

Now don't screw up :)

4 Responses to “After Years of Self-Hosting, It's Come to Posterous”

  1. David Drager says:

    Congrats on your move – I have been impressed with Posterous as well. Will be watching to see how everything goes!

  2. Sam Harrelson says:

    Thanks, David! I'm sure I'm hopeful Posterous will continue to rock as a platform, which it really is becoming instead of just-another-blogging-engine.

  3. Michael Litman says:

    Congrats on the move, I did the very same thing today in fact! I love Posterous!

  4. Sam Harrelson says:

    Thanks, Michael. I had a "micro-blog" with a .me setup for a while here and thought that I'd just use that with my self-hosted .com name domain. However, this service is just too dead simple and flexible for me to continue paying and going through the trouble of server upkeep to justify doing so! It's good to be on here full time.