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Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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I wanted an easy to admin wordpress site and picked dreamhost.com as its just about as turn-key as I needed. Backups, upgrades all work seamlessly. This gave me the added benefit that for a fixed price per year, I can host other people's wordpress sites on the same plan. Turns out I have several friends that want a site but know nothing about running one, so I do it for them.

For a wp theme that looks good and has flexibility and support, I picked http://diythemes.com/thesis/

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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http://wordpress.com it just works. for everything. i've tried posterous and returned to wordpress. edit: i've used wordpress both as a tech-dumb, just-want-to-blog-fast user, as well as set up and customized on my own server. curious what problems others have found with wordpress.

You get the full power of WP, hosted on their servers. It's not as flexible as rolling your own, however.

I'd also vouch for Posterous, but it's not as advanced as something like Wordpress is.

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Posterous sucks because you cannot insert images where you want and you have to go through a separate interface to get your images in it. Posted one article on posterous, and don't want to post more.

If you use your e-mail program as your post editor (I use Gmail web interface), you can make it work by throwing ((nogallery)) into your title. See my recent posts for how it works: http://www.sachinagarwal.com/ Disclosure: I'm not the Sachin Agarwal that co-founded Posterous, although he's threatened to hijack my domain and redirect it to his blog. (He's kidding. Sort of. I will stab him if he does.) Because of my n…

what if you didn't put the images in ahead of time? Can you add them when you go to edit the post?
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