For the last two days, when I’ve had some spare time, I was doing something I wanted to do for a very long time. This blog for years was hosted on the tumblr. As I’ve never considered it as something serious, just a place to sometimes post my thoughts, I wanted something free and easy to use. I’ve never been satisfied with my choice, but wasn’t motivated enough to do something. With all the changes of ownership for tumblr and decisions by the management I was more willing to move. Now, when I’m trying to make a habit of writing, this was as good a time as ever to migrate this blog. I’ve decided to go the hosted WordPress site route, considering the price and time investment needed.
Yesterday I was looking for a hosting provider, installing WordPress, and changing DNS records for the site. Today, when all the propagation finished, I’ve found theme, did a bit of fine-tuning and imported all my posts from tumblr. I’m not satisfied with the result still, but it’s a step in the right direction. I will continue to tweak everything along the way.
This is not the first website in the recent time I’ve made, but I’m still surprised how easy it is to have site up and running and it’s cheap too. During the time of dominance of a couple of social media giants, I think it’s more important then ever to have a space of your own on the Internet.