After excessive nagging by WordPress, I decided to upgrade to version 3.4. My questions are:
How often should I upgrade WordPress?
How often should I upgrade MySQL/PHP/Apache/Ubuntu?
The con of upgrading is that the newer version may have a security flaw. However, the new version has new features, and the old version may have had fixed security flaws.
Nobody has hacked my blog yet (that I know).
My blogging motivation has increased lately. Maybe my motivation was temporarily ruined by working in a lousy job?
I set up piwik! If that offends you, then you may use noscript to blog piwik.realfreemarket.org.
My motivation declines when I think of all the nasty stunts and tricks pulled on me over my working life.
I guess I find it hard to get my head around people that just don’t care about other people. They are just users.
Funnily enough twenty users ago, I was told about the “user” person type and I’m only just thinking back to the advice I was given early on. I filed it away, when it should have been at the front of my mind.
Always stay one step behind the bleeding edge of technology until some other poor sucker has used it and found the flaws.
I have a website that makes use of Open Source software and some paid-for web components.
I created the website in 2008 or 2009, so the software it is based on its getting old now and I can see the new releases have a few nicer features.
However the website is also loosely connected to the software I sell – it needs to ping my website on key registration etc.
I am holding off on upgrading my website, until I release a lot more software that actually brings in more money.
What I am doing at the moment, is creating a brand new website with current Open Source software and I will slowly migrate content over time or just use the new website for the brand new software product I am currently writing.