The other night I was particularly cranky about WordPress.com’s annoying prompts to upgrade on top of how convoluted, messy and slow their admin interface is. I was kicking myself for moving from self-hosted to hosted because I couldn’t install a plug-in because I wasn’t paying enough. So I did what any nerd does. First I complained about about it on a social network, then I spun up and configured an Ubuntu instance on Vultr (great service BTW), set up a new A record and successfully installed Ghost on my first attempt with a little help from ChatGPT.