There’s also the option to ask someone with skills and expertise to set something up for you.
Which is almost never taken into consideration as an option in this kind of posts.
I don’t think it’s hard to start a blog in 2023. It’s hard to start a blog if you have very strict requirements AND you want to do everything on your own without being a developer/designer.
There’s also the option to ask someone with skills and expertise to set something up for you.
It's an option, but it's a bad option. Setting up and running a blog is not a one off process. For things like Wordpress there are literally security patches. For most other platforms there are updates. Wordpress has auto-update but it can be flaky, especially if the site owner tinkers with things.
If you get someone else to set something up for you it'll either rot, or you'll be pestering them to update it for you.
If you don't have the technical ability to run something just pay for a service instead.
Well yes and there's also countless other options that are not wordpress that require very little maintenance.
And you can also simply ask someone every year or so to perform some basic maintenance on your site like we already do for countless other things in our lives.
> you'll be pestering them to update it for you.
Am I pestering my mechanic to perform maintenance on my car every year? No it's called work. It's his job.
Which is almost never taken into consideration as an option in this kind of posts.
I don’t think it’s hard to start a blog in 2023. It’s hard to start a blog if you have very strict requirements AND you want to do everything on your own without being a developer/designer.