Steemit as a platform for blogging is very attractive, because you always getting income for your work. But Steem blockchain in general is not great, because they are going maintenance always every months for several days, when it is impossible to send/receive or post.
That's not true that they ''are going maintenance always every months for several days'', the hard fork happen once in a few months till a year. The last hard fork we had about 2 months and everything is working well now, we had to wait just couple of days. The previous one we had about a year ago and that was a bit longer, just about 5 days and that's ok, because the hard fork is not that easy. The most importnat is the things we already have built on it, but not if it's updates or not. All the updates are helpful to any kind of website. The other important thing, is that paying for more than 3 years, so it's a reliable investment of time and money.