Pondering My Blog Strategy

Wordpress is pretty heavy on resources for my needs.  Even if I tune Apache and MySQL it’s hard to get it to perform well on a 256MB machine.  Why 256?  That’s the lowest offered from Slicehost.  By the way, I like them a lot.  You get a great server in minutes.  256MB with 100MB in/100MB out for $20per month.  Nice.  RackSpace has a seemingly better deal – 512MB for $22.  But you have to pay for bandwidth separately.  The same deal (100MB in/100MB out) is $52.  Not such a good deal.  Slicehost is better.

But 256 is not really enough for Wordpress.  I went with Wordpress since having the ability for folks to leave comments seemed like a good thing.  But I really don’t get many comments. I turned off the Amazon stuff – it was generating no clicks at all and I didn’t like that I could not pick the products shown.   Most of the plug ins for Wordpress don’t solve any of my problems, really.  It’s easy to post new stories, but really, I do HTML and CSS so I could just as easily make my own static pages… and then not need any silly database at all anyway.

So here’s a chance to prove me wrong – leave a comment.  What should I do?  Ditch the heavy Wordpress stuff?  Suck it up and pay for more memory?  You tell me.