What does it take to create a blog with minimal technical knowledge? Manuel Moreale explores the idea in Minimum viable blog.

His argument misses important aspects that make hosting a blog difficult for novices. Once you bought a domain and have a couple of HTML pages that link to each other, how do you get the pages to a computer connected to the internet so people can read your words? And how do you point the domain to that place? Creating a page is the easy part. What makes hosting websites hard is all the things that Manuel didn’t cover.