Home renovation blog for budget folks

TL;DR

I started a Wordpress blog for budget home renovation.

Problem

There was barely any info online to guide me through the renovation journey (choosing an ID/contractor, deciding on a design, buying from Taobao).

Idea

Started BTOnomics as pewpewpew.cc in 2018, which was a blog that documented my journey and my advice to other people in similar shoes.

Stack

Wordpress

Nginx

MySQL

BunnyCDN

What I built

WordPress was the obvious choice.
Wrote organic content that other people liked as well.
Tinkered with themes & plug-ins, tweaking, optimizing (stuff like Litespeed Cache, WP Rocket, Yoast).
Finetuned content for SEO and Core Web Vitals, esp TTFB/LCP.

Not yet done

Wordpress got too bulky and tiresome to manage and host. Not least the sprawling repository of images (not least the multiple resized copies of every image). I'm still keeping this Wordpress instance out of nostalgia.