Jake Savin

I’ve been meaning to do this forever, and now the deed is done. I’ve been self-hosting my blog in one way or another, across many platforms and machines since 1997(!), and though I still run my own services for some stuff, keeping my WordPress site healthy, updated, and secure is work I can’t justify doing myself any more.

So today I used Claude Cowork to help me migrate to WordPress.com hosting. The whole process took about 30 minutes from downloading my content, to creating a new site and signing up for the Personal tier. This will give me plenty of space and the site is now way faster than it used to be. More importantly, I no longer have to worry about maintaining that part of my own IT infrastructure, backups, security, and all the other fun stuff that comes with self-hosting. 🎉

Over the years I’ve gradually moved more and more of the things I think are important (i.e. I’d be really bummed if I lost them) to providers that can do it better than I can, keeping in mind that I only want to put my data in places where I can migrate it back out if I ever need or want to do that. WordPress has a long history of alignment with the data portability ethos, and I’m happy that my site is now here.

Onward!