It’s Been a Great Ride

There is no doubt that Wordpress is a great piece of software. As much as people love to hate on PHP, it runs a lot of the internet.

I’ve been running Wordpress personally and professionally for years. It only gets better. I was only hacked once :)

Rethinking What I Need

Since moving to a Low End Box, my resources have been tight. Even on a tuned system, I can’t run much more interesting things than my Nginx+PHPfpm+MySQL.

Right now I also have 32000 spam comments in my queue. Akismet does a great job, but I wonder if I even need it. All I really need is a tiny corner of the web, read only is ok.

What I Lose

• Comments
• Cool plugins
• Well trusted codebase
• Easy to use gui
• Familiar Workflow

What I Gain

• Immutability and hackproof deployment
• Entire classes of server maintenance issues disappear
• Git!
• Grep-able blogs

Making The Change

• I’m thankful for the excellent Octopress software.
• I used this XML export script to script my conversion repeatedly.
• I used the Exitwp to convert my wordpress XML tump