I'm trying to reduce and simplify my online presence stuff (basically the least amount of work I can put into it, and also what'll cost me the least.)
What I've settled on (and so far seems to be working for me, although I'm in the early stages of it):
Got rid of a VPS running my own web server, migrated email for both of my domains to Google apps for domain.
Got rid of Squarespace account and set up a Posterous blog and the flavors.me page (so I have a landing page at flavors.me and a separate blog).
My old website was basically a landing page and a blog, which was sort of a waste of an apache instance.
So now I've basically replaced paying $20/month and the hassle of administrating an email and web server for free services. If I get to the point where this solution doesn't do what I want it to, maybe I'll go back to doing it myself; but I'd rather not deal with it.
What happens when/if posterous/flavors.me dies (as a company)? At least with Squarespace in that instance you could transparently migrate everything somewhere else, right?
Identity just seems like a weird thing to outsource, especially when it's really not that hard. I'm a proficient, but basically technically lay person, and my setup is to have a static html file on a web host and a blog page that points at a tumblr blog, which I'm thinking about switching to wordpress.
But I'm not and never have been on Facebook, so I'm probably an outlier.
If flavors.me dies (which is absolutely a possibility, as I have no idea what their long-term plans are), then I lose the static about page that I've set up.
If I was already going to be hosting my email and/or blog myself then I agree, setting up one additional static landing page wouldn't be a lot of overhead.
But once I decided to get rid of my email, it started to get harder to justify paying for a VPS just to run a blog and a main page. It's sort of a cascading effect of outsourcing.
Not to post-jack but I would be interested what people think about it compared to flavors.me as well.