Looking for a new http://home
Maintaining a hosting service was simply too draining and time consuming. Had I actually been knowledgeable with all the back end stuff maybe it would have been fruitful and fun, who knows. But with simply not having enough free time on my hands all the paid hosting site was another way to spend money that could be used for something else. I am still holding out on being able to someday set up a site on a paid hosting service again someday on my terms but for now the search for the best available free-hosting solution is still up for grabs.
Why then am I posting on posterous? Quite simply because I wanted to try something new. I have been on a Wordpress blog for nearly as long as I've been writing on the net, with the first few months an exception...I was on blogger then before google came and snatched it up. I bet blogger has gotten a ton of improvements by now from that time. I also tried using tumbler for a bit as it was the first ready made blogging platform available on an iOS device on my trustee (now lost) iPhone classic.
Scouring through multiple free hosting platforms isn't too difficult considering internet research on hosted platforms in the cloud is part of my job description. As far as I can tell this is an excellent medium for getting writing done. It may not look as pretty as Wordpress but it gets the job done efficiently. Over the course of the next few posts I will attempt to get myself comfortable with the different workflow that posterous presents as a blogging platform. To say I miss the slick user/admin interface of Wordpress is an understatement, but admittedly this minimalistic approach of Posterous is quite attractive in it's own way.
