The Move to Posterous
Over the past few days I have moved my blog and in fact my entire website over to Posterous. I was getting fed up with Wordpress’s manual updates and the problems with it and my FTP server. I wanted something more simple where I didn’t have to worry about all these things. I immediately thought of Squarespace as I had heard great things about it but it was just too expensive for me, even though it incorporated hosting as well. One night I was looking at Posterous, followed it through to its importer page and realised that it offered free hosting of your domain and blog. I decided just to do it on the spur of the moment and imported my Wordpress blog’s contents over to Posterous. After that was done, I set up my custom domain which turned out to be much easier than I thought. This is basically the gist of it:
- Create an A record with your registrar with an IP address pointing to Posterous.
- Go back to Posterous and set your custom domain to whatever it is.
And you’re done! Posterous also provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it.
I also noticed this picture on the import page on Posterous comparing it and Wordpress. The ones about security updates and hosting are very true and I’m happy to get away from them.
Overall, I’m very happy with Posterous. Sure, I’ll miss some things like plugins, a wider range of themes and the overall greater customisation of my site with Wordpress, but Posterous is just so so much simpler which is what I needed. Plus, I don’t have to pay any money for hosting and a MySQL database anymore, only paying for the actual domain once year, which pleases me.
