Rhymes with Cars

Currently, I have 4 or 5 sites that I have hosted at GoDaddy that run Wordpress. This one, Hope For Holly (hosted at Media Temple – which seems to be working fine), Building Castles and a couple of others that I’ve started, but haven’t done much with. I’m a business guy, not a PHP Programmer. Each time I launch a site I have the regular frustration with versioning, design, picking plug-ins, etc. Frankly, I’m done with it. This past weekend, I noticed that my site wasn’t sending trackbacks and ping backs. I have no idea why. It seems to coincide with my upgrade to 2.3.3, but I really can’t tell. I spent about 6 aggravating hours trying to figure out why to no avail, so I’m scrapping the idea of hosting it myself. I’m tired of managing upgrades only to have to upgrade again 5 days later, I’m tired of having to keep plug-ins current for fear of security holes, I’m tired of futzing with CSS and PHP to try to get the site to look exactly the way that I want only to have it not do exactly what I want. To make matters worse, when I tried to do the export from GoDaddy, I found that SpamKarma had left 88MB of spam in my SQL database. So I needed to figure out how to delete that. Again, not a programmer, I just want to write. I originally decided to run on WP because I wanted to learn basic PHP and SQL stuff. Now that I know that, I’m done. I’ve moved to the hosted Wordpress.com site and I’ll see how things go. I don’t love the look of the site, but I love the idea of it being much easier to use and manage. I’d much rather spend time writing blog posts than messing with PHP pages, stylesheets and upgrades. I don’t know what this will do to my RSS feed, which I’ll be porting over (via Feedburner) in the next day or so. I suspect that to will break. Please come back and update your link.