I'll take 99.8% uptime over managing an entire blog infrastructure.
Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr
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#32I'll take 99.8% uptime over managing an entire blog infrastructure.
Out of genuine curiosity, what percent of uptime would be worth managing your own infrastructure?
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#33Weird. I can't remember ever having trouble loading a tumblr blog. I wonder what accounts for our different experiences?
maybe it's because of the location of the servers? they seem to be west coast, i'm east coast and can't remember the last time i had trouble loading a tumblr blog
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#34A Tumblr blog may not be the best solution but spending that many resources on a blog (especially one not featured in the main navigation) is usually out of the question for most startups.
For most startups the amount of time invested for a custom Jekyll setup and a downtime script could be replaced with a new feature or a better product/home page.
I think its important for startups not to spend too much time blogging unless they feel it will provide them some decent traffic and strongly support the product/company. Make the product better first. If your blog host (Tumblr) isn't stable enough, wordpress it and be done with it.
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#35I'm in the amidst of launching my start-up CodePupil.com .
What I dig about Tumblr is how fast Google indexes posts from there due to it's popularity.
Thus, if your looking to HELP get your start-up's name listed in Google fairly quikcly, then a Tumblr or Posterous would be best to use. I posted a Tumblr "About us," yesterday and Google indexed it eight hours later.
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#36A Tumblr blog may not be the best solution but spending that many resources on a blog (especially one not featured in the main navigation) is usually out of the question for most startups. For most startups the amount of time invested for a custom Jekyll setup and a downtime script could be replaced with a new feature or a better product/home page. I think its important for startups not to spend too much time bloggin…
HN'ers have a hard enough time accepting:
'more features' != 'more marketshare'
See 37signals blog, seomoz blog, and every piece of advice patio11 has ever written.
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#37So, in the last week or so of reading Hacker News, I've been told:
* Don't blog on Google+
* Don't blog on Tumblr
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#38So, in the last week or so of reading Hacker News, I've been told: * Don't blog on Google+ * Don't blog on Tumblr Before I start blogging, are there any others I should know about?
I think ultimately you will see complaints against almost every service and you will be left with one choice. Host your own. And then that has its own shortcomings. So we can conclude that everything has risks no matter what. It's up to you to assess and decide which risks you can tolerate.
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#39Strangely enough I find that I am more inclined to read company's blog if it is visibly hosted on a dedicated blog site, Tumblr and Posterious included. Based on this observation I did a bit of testing of .tumblr.com vs blog..com and former generated more foot traffic from Twitter link drops. Haven't tried www..com/blog though, it might well outperform both options.
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#40Ummm.... they're hosting on HEROKU?
In 2011, Tumblr was down for 42 hours.
In 2011, Heroku was down for 76 hours in one incident alone.
And that's all before you get to the hubris of the assumption that your custom coded setup will perform better. A more sensible argument would be to move to a host with a better proven uptime record, such as Blogger (nearly 100%).
Sources: http://allthingsd.com/20111215/tumblr-had-42-hours-of-downti... https://status.heroku.com/incident/151