I like to be in control of my destiny where my public website (and by blog) is concerned. That way, my content isn’t at the mercy of a third-party that may start charging to host my content, remove content, or stop hosting my content. I can call this control *self reliance*.
Being in control of my blog has its costs. I am the person responsible to make sure the blog software (wordpress) stays up-to-date, which takes time — valuable time that I’d rather spend doing something else (and usually do).
Most people I know that blog have already out-sourced the their blogging platform, whether they realize it or not. Should I capitulate (i.e. surrender control) and do the same thing?
In some sense, my ability to function in this high tech world requires that I rely on others. I rely on a third party to provide the blogging software (wordpress), host my web server (digitalspace.net), another to provide bandwidth, another to provide a domain name (joker.com). On and on the list goes. I am not an island unto myself. My ability to succeed depends on being a part of civilized society.
I’d capitulate control of my blog, except that I still want a canonical location for my blog to live — one that is a little bit less subject to the whims of a single corporate entity. The best place is at jaredrobinson.com. If I need to switch to a new hosting provider or switch to a different domain name registrar, the canonical URL doesn’t have to change.
I’m not ready to capitulate yet. I like my canonical blog URL.