Mattro.org - Now with less Wordpress
There's been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about Wordpress after the recent security scare. To cut a long (and probably dull) story short; self-hosted Wordpress installations that haven't been updated to the latest version are vulnerable to a security flaw. As a result, I've moved my web log onto Posterous. This quote from John Gruber pretty much sums up the motivation behind the move.
“Well, what do you expect to happen if you don’t keep your installation up to date?” I don’t religiously keep my installation of Movable Type up to date, and I know many other MT users don’t either, and yet our sites don’t get hacked.
I never religiously kept my installation of Wordpress up to date either, so this comment hit home for me - I'm exactly the kind of user who'd be burned by a security problem like this in the future.
Registering for Posterous was possibly the easiest and fastest process I've seen for a site of this nature. You email them, and your first post is live. From that point forward, you have the option to customise your blog, enable statistics, feedburner, custom url's, themes, privacy and more. As you'll see below, I managed to import all of my blog posts from before. The downside is that the comments didn't come through with the import.
Do you host your own Wordpress blog? How are you feeling about the recent security scare?
