I guess the gist of this is don’t build your castles on other people’s land. Anyone remember Posterous, a blogging platform that got shut down and is now Posthaven? Posthaven is a paid-only service so unlike Posterous it can keep the lights on for a longer time. But then there is the likelihood of even a paid service shutting down, so buyer beware.
My approach is to self host and keep all my blogposts backed up in markdown format. Any images I have are backed up too. Also if you are running a blog, make sure you have the funds needed to keep it up for as long as possible. You may even need a paid CDN if you are serving a lot of images. Cloudflare helps with their free CDN but it’s nice to get away from centralised monopolies such as Cloudflare. Their recent outage has me looking for alternatives.
My approach is to self host and keep all my blogposts backed up in markdown format. Any images I have are backed up too. Also if you are running a blog, make sure you have the funds needed to keep it up for as long as possible. You may even need a paid CDN if you are serving a lot of images. Cloudflare helps with their free CDN but it’s nice to get away from centralised monopolies such as Cloudflare. Their recent outage has me looking for alternatives.