Which blog software to use ...

I'm thinking of hosting a blog myself. Most important reason would be that bloggingabout.net doesn't allow some stuff like scripts, embedding flash and links to things like the 'connect with me' button and so on. Which is completely understandable by the way. What I'm not sure about is which software to use. Do you guys have any tips on which blogging software to use? Or maybe even on if I should or shouldn't host it for myself? If you do, let me know.

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Published Wed, Dec 19 2007 8:53 PM by Rick van den Bosch
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# re: Which blog software to use ...

The real choice will be do you want to use a .NET blogging platform like DasBlog, Subtext or BlogEngine or something with wider support, features, plugins and themes like WordPress.

I really wanted to stay in the .NET camp but was tempted over by those features as was Rob Conery...

[)amien

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:28 PM by Damien Guard

# re: Which blog software to use ...

[)amien is right. Make a choice in platform.

If you decide for LAMP, consider Drupal or Joomla.

Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:45 PM by Ernst Wolthaus

# re: Which blog software to use ...

My blog is using Wordpress, but at the moment I'm settingup a new website where I can put more stuff on then just a blog and I'm using Joomla 1.5 for this. I'm switching because I want to share my presentations, articles and more information about myself. So I'm gone use it more then just as blogging software.

Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:31 PM by Pieter Joost van de Sande

# re: Which blog software to use ...

Sorry for late reply holidays and all not been keeping up on reading.

Anyway I have been kind of floating around for a while I tried Microsoft's live spaces. I like them but slow as all get out way too much ajax and javascript going on. It just really bogs the blog down.

I tried wordpress, host by them, it was ok, but had a lot of wierd script errors sometimes, I would never host it on my own server basically because it is PHP and I am not familiar enough  with PHP to make sure that I have plugged all the holes.

I tried blogger, and I really like them since they upgraded but I found them limiting as well in some aspects like being able to upload files and so on.

What I ended up doing is going with blog engine.net. They just released a new version right before Xmas that has full support for windows live writer and it's API's.

Also there are a lot of hosting companies finally getting into the virtual server hosting and it is really becoming dirt cheap. I got into solarvps when they were having a special and I got an excellent hosting deal from them like $30 a month for a fairly decent virtual server out on the internet. I really like this because it allows me to be fully in charge of the server and I can do anything I want and install anything I want. I am in full control of the server. This also mean I have to put on the firewall and set it up and I have to put on the antivirus and set it up and I have to patch it and so on. Anyway this allows me to have multiple domains and so on so this is another option.

Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:49 PM by Jeff

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