Comment by K0nserv

I don't think that it's dead and self publishing I'd argue is easier and cheaper than ever. My blog has all the power of s3 for scaling with free SSL from Cloudflare and I pay peanuts for it. Current bill is $0.03 some months it gets closer to $1.

I've written about it here https://hugotunius.se/aws/cloudflare/web/2016/01/10/the-one-...