I transitioned my personal blog from a DIY scalable AWS solution to a Shared Hosting solution. Allow me to explain my thinking.
I had my blog hosted on AWS. I thought my words may have wide reach. Perhaps I even share excellent blogs on popular programmer websites such as hackernews or daily dev. Surely it would be wise and prudent to be able to solve for world scale traffic. This has not come to pass.
I had a CDN (CloudFront) protecting static and dynamic assets. My site had been set up to scale up and down to traffic using EC2 auto-scaling groups. My RDS MariaDB instance took nightly backups, and my EFS ensured all compute instances had access to media, WordPress Themes, and WordPress Plugins. Logs centralized in CloudWatch for analysis.
To what end?
I realized building a scalable blog was more important than generating content.
Perhaps with wisdom I realize it is probably better to host my blog on a shared hosting solution, pay a consistent monthly fee, forego systems administration, and just allow the blog to be a blog.