User expectations, economics and the market all change in that time.
In the blog, the author mentions a need for using a "premium plan" for publishing his WP blog to protect it from being taken down by large spikes in traffic. That premium plan changed the economics of his blog, and the plan gets more expensive with time making his content less profitable.
In the blog, the author mentions a need for using a "premium plan" for publishing his WP blog to protect it from being taken down by large spikes in traffic. That premium plan changed the economics of his blog, and the plan gets more expensive with time making his content less profitable.