I know it's early in this site's existence. But I'm thinking about the future as well.
I want to make any site I am going to keep my full time site. It'll have my name as the URL and everything. That's a no brainer. I'm not going to stop writing. Not going to stop making games. And I want to share all the stuff that I make with you.
Netlify is an intriguing prospect. One of my friends uses Netlify for his hosting. Another person giving feedback suggested it too. In an ideal world, this site would sit on Netlify. It's economical, it works on Git, you can do rapid deployment, it's fast. The only problem is, I'm not a coder (at least not to even the basic level Netlify needs). As much as I tried to do it, I'm not. It doesn't come easily, and while there are resources to learn - resources I'm happy to learn from, the cost to learn, to make mistakes, to figure it out... that's too high for me.
The cost is time. Money aside, the real cost we have is time.
This is a Wix site. The reason why I chose Wix is time. I was fed up with not having an online presence. I've tried to build my own websites in the past. Used other web builder apps / SaaS. And get to a point where I spend so much time (and money) on it, only at the end to not like the service I was building on, or did not like what I built. Or I ran out of time. Life gets filled.
Wix has its drawbacks - I don't own what I spend time decorating. In essence, Wix treats HTML and all the web code as a store window. My games and writing are my products. The graphics and words are my promotional materials. But the code, the layout, the functionality? That all comes with the store window, and you don't own that.
Back to the topic. Why am I thinking of migrating? Because it's an easier move while you haven't put down too many roots. This would be my fifth blog post. Imagine if I had 100s. I've not put up much writing of yet, but that will change. It will change.
When you don't have a lot of stuff, it's easier to move. And I wish it was easier to do so -- even if I don't plan to at the moment. Know what I'm saying?
C'est la vie.
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