"sometimes it makes more sense to turn to experts and pay them to manage your essential stuff" Yes!

And you know what? *That's fine!*

The key is to have and maintain data and service portability and some kind of exit strategy, ideally including automated recurring, easily importable backups. That way, if the provider turns bad at some point, your loss is limited to at most any pre-paid amount plus the time to set up shop somewhere else and re-import whatever you had stored with them.

1000% 🙌

planning to do weekly manual backups…

at the end of the day I’d like my self-hosting adventures to be empowering and fun.

Moving my Ghost blog to Docker without any assistance would have been 1000% pain and fear of doing something wrong that could have damaged my site. Plus being in constant fear about security holes in my Docker system.

I couldn’t be happier with my decision to move to Magic Pages 😊

I don't remember off hand who said it, but there's the oft-repeated quote along the lines of that to make apple pie from scratch, you first have to invent the universe.

It is valid to skip a few steps, and you can still end up with a delicious apple pie. 🙂

@elena