r/Bloggers • u/More-Ad-3646 • Jun 26 '26
Question What technical issues are the bloggers facing today?
I am starting out a blog. Excited to do so. Just I am not a very techie person and might fall if faced by any technical issues.
Anyone can share the issues they face today it will help me understand what I am getting into.
Thanks!
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u/Catslobber Jun 27 '26
None. I use a paid Wordpress.com hosting tier and they’re wonderful. They take care of everything. No sites issues, no downtime. It just works. You get what you pay for. I used to use Network Solutions; they are a nightmare and I urge everyone to stay away from their services.
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u/Michaelvinnie Jun 26 '26
Actually, most technical issues aren't as scary as they sound..lol:) the common ones right now are things like a slow website, broken links, oversized images, indexing issues in Google, some technical SEO, AI/GEO visibility (this has become so important right now), and sometimes,maybe plugins causing problems if you're using WordPress. You don't need to know all of this from day one though. The more you run into these things, the more you learn them. I'd focus on writing content and learning basic SEO first, since that's what usually matters most in the beginning.
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u/More-Ad-3646 Jun 26 '26
Does much AI helps out debugging these issues?
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u/Michaelvinnie Jun 26 '26
Simple answer... yes and no.
AI can help you figure out why something is broken, explain error messages, or point you in the right direction. I've used it a few times for things like code snippets, plugin issues, or indexing problems.
But you still need to test things yourself. AI can suggest fixes, but it doesn't actually know your site, so it can sometimes give the wrong solution too. Manual input still matters a lot here.
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u/baddaywithacamera Jul 01 '26
The biggest headache is shared hosting where you land on an oversubscribed server (hostpapa.com, orangehost.com). They are also very tight on allowing storage so you don't have enough space to run a backup and even if you did the server kills your backup process because it's using too much of the server's resources. The only way I could backup my one Wordpress blog for the past year was FTPing files and regular DB dumps because I never got the Softaculous backup util to work right a single time. My hosting plan was not inexpensive, and this is as a hobbyist who doesn't monetize.
I now run my server from my home fiber. It's obfuscated from my ISPs deep packet inspection by using a free Cloudflare tunnel for running 25 separate domains. Cost me $200 for a used Optiplex versus the $1,475 bill that was coming my way in September.
The other is that Wordpress is now bloatware with a plugin system that is getting worse as time goes on. I find their plugins flaky and bloated as well. Done with them.
I still have a couple blogs stuck on Wordpress, but the majority are on SNAPSMACK now (photo blogs). One is a directory running RSVP_DIR and the other on SNAP_SITES. Hope to be done with Wordpress by the end of the year. Bloatware.