Should I use Elementor pro?

I’ve been trying to improve the appearance of my blogs recently. To that end, I investigated Elementor. it wasn’t too difficult to set it up with my least important blog. It wasn’t a walk in the park exactly, but with the help of a few YouTube videos I was able to get a much better looking set up than I had before. And it offered the prospect of more improvement to come. I did find that a very rapidly reached the stage where I needed to upgrade to the pro version.

But I was still fairly happy with the situation. I had rapidly turned my block from cringe inducing embarrassment into mundane run of the mill anonymity. And the monthly fee was reasonably modest.

I decided to repeat my progress so far with my main blog, one which might have a bearing on my income. The result was disastrous. Installing Elementor crash the hole thing and it was impossible to even recover the work diligently built up over the previous 20 years. The problem turned out to be an arcane setting in my domain which would be badly set up by my hosting provider. But for awhile, I thought it was down to Elementor itself.

My experience with Elementor’s Customer Service team was not impressive. I’m not complaining about it particularly. But it certainly wasn’t more valuable than the as I said modest fee entitled me too. I also discovered that they were based in Israel. This wasn’t something I was particularly happy about. I’m not sure about the morality of economic boycotts. Picking on a private company in order to punish a government isn’t strictly fair. But there was the practical issue that if all their servers were in Israel and Iranian missile might knock out my account.

As an experiment I switched off Elementor to see how it would affect my site. As expected, all the benefit side gain from using the software vanished instantaneously.

So my thinking now is that I really need to be as independent of third parties as I can be. I don’t be grudge the fees at the moment. Though of course I am putting myself at risk of future price rises. But recent events in America show that it’s unwise to rely too much on things staying the same they always have been. It could be that the stuff we currently rely on from Silicon Valley may not be the great deal it is at the moment for ever. I am going to see how much of the money I shell out every month on software services of various kinds can be resourced closer to home or maybe dispensed with altogether.