Sure, there’s plenty of other options out there, S3 comes to mind too. I do like the fact that everything is self-contained so I’d rather not rely on external infrastructure such as S3 or a CDN. I would consider it cheating somehow 🙂 And I couldn’t claim in good conscience to have a solar powered, pi hosted site.

I do resize images to help a bit, I don’t do top notch photography like you so they don’t need a gazillion pixels. Videos are an issue too of course. At some point we’ll have better internet service, in the meantime 3Mbps is plenty for a few personal sites and home automation projects.

Aah I see, that must be frustrating. On my end the only thing that takes a while to load are images, so you could install WordPress’ “Jetpack” plugin and enable “Photon” so that images are served from WordPress’ CDN?

Yes, it doesn’t take much to power a simple website nowadays. My main bottleneck right now is bandwidth, I only have 3Mbps service in my neck of the woods.