For years, WordPress was my go-to platform for blogging, but it was time for a change—one that aligns better with my values, both environmentally and financially. In this post, I share the reasons behind my decision to move to an Astro app deployed on Azure Static Web Apps.

This weekend I was speaking at WordCamp Nijmegen about the possibilities of hosting a WordPress site using Microsoft Azure. I’m sharing my Dutch slides here, and soon I hope to add the recording for WordPress TV in this post as well.

After having major, and unsolvable, problems with MovableType (MovableType was causing segfaults in Perl) for over half a year I finally switched to WordPress for hosting my blog.