Oh, you still use Wordpress for your blog? That's adorable.

Given that the author goes on to condemn Wordpress as overly feature-heavy and too complicated for most users, I don't feel like 'adorable' is the right word there. At any rate, this platform looks awesome. Markdown editing with live-previewing? Sounds like a dream come true for anyone who just wants to write words and put them on the Internet.

I think Ghost is absolutely awesome. It's slick, it has potential, there's a lot of enthusiasm for it. I have been running an instance since the first public release. There is no comparison between it and Wordpress though.

The former is a neat new product while the latter is a full-blown CMS, with every SEO optimization one can think of, plethora of plugins and themes, and vast knowledge base, even if in the form of random blog and forum posts. Ghost doesn't even support analytics and comments natively. Plugins (apps?) are a planned feature!

Not to mention that instead of copying the files over to any webhost and pointing to your MySQL, like you would with Wordpress, to use Ghost you need to install node, install Ghost's dependencies, configure and run supervisord, configure the webserver, and only then start Ghost. At which point you will be confused by its testing and production modes.

Personally, I like it that way. Run an app, point nginx to it, done. You can add caching and ssl effortlessly on top of that without interfering with the application itself. But most people don't consider server administration a viable hobby.

It's not the greatest. And running it locally is fraught, because of Security Hole of the Week.

For almost everyone running WordPress, the right answer is wordpress.com. If you really need a custom theme, you might need to host somewhere else or self-host.

(I self-host my own WP blogs, but that's because I'm a control addict.)

He's making it sound really easy. The reason many people end up using WP for their self hosted blog is that it runs on just about every shared hosting in the world. Ghost really doesn't – because it uses Node.

Switching hosting provider (often to a more expensive one) is more trouble and sacrifice than most people like to go through. Because, for those who are really just interested in writing, the blogging software isn't very important at all. It is where you write your texts and you publish them.

Being anal about blogging software is, after all, an occupation for the tech geeks who like to obsess about details. You know those who often have 7 posts on their blog in total. Like the author of this blog post... And me.

"spectacular hubris that's somewhere between laughable and profoundly obnoxious"

Confucius say, man who writes sneery headline about "that's adorable" not best placed to criticise others for being obnoxious.