I have 2 Wordpress blogs that get comparable amounts of traffic. They're both on the same shared hosting (MediaTemple), they're both updated at the same time.
One never seems to be touched, the other seems to have gotten a high spot on some l44t hax0r's list and is exploited just about every time there a security flaw is discovered. It's annoying to say the least.
Slowly over the years I've been moving everything that I don't absolutely have to host off shared hosting or VPS's and onto hosted services (I love Tumblr) that allow backups/exports. In my experience, it's just not worth the headaches to self-host things like blogs.
One never seems to be touched, the other seems to have gotten a high spot on some l44t hax0r's list and is exploited just about every time there a security flaw is discovered. It's annoying to say the least.
Slowly over the years I've been moving everything that I don't absolutely have to host off shared hosting or VPS's and onto hosted services (I love Tumblr) that allow backups/exports. In my experience, it's just not worth the headaches to self-host things like blogs.