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Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

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Post by 42flicks »

ionfish wrote: post #28
greyman wrote: post #27

How serious are you about your intention? My suggestion is, that if you want to just try it out, register instantly on wordpress.com or blogger.com and try to run it for a few weeks. The thing is, that maintaining you own installation at your own domain takes quite a lot of time. On the other hand, if you really want to run a successful blog, register your own domain and install...well, you will not go wrong with Wor…

> [M]aintaining you own installation at your own domain takes quite a lot of time. Not sure I agree with this, at least where WordPress is concerned. What, after all, is involved? Grabbing the source from the latest stable branch on the WP svn repository takes less than a minute. Creating a new database is a few seconds; adding the database details to the config file is less than a minute; and the install routine can…

I don't run my own installation (used the hosted one for about a year) but have seen friends upgrades go not so smoothly. In keeping with various updates I'd say it'd take a bit of time.

Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

#33

Post by ionfish »

42flicks wrote: post #31
ionfish wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> [M]aintaining you own installation at your own domain takes quite a lot of time. Not sure I agree with this, at least where WordPress is concerned. What, after all, is involved? Grabbing the source from the latest stable branch on the WP svn repository takes less than a minute. Creating a new database is a few seconds; adding the database details to the config file is less than a minute; and the install routine can…

I don't run my own installation (used the hosted one for about a year) but have seen friends upgrades go not so smoothly. In keeping with various updates I'd say it'd take a bit of time.

The only time I've had problems upgrading was when, running off the trunk svn build, a new tags system which changed a bunch of database tables was introduced and then scrapped shortly afterwards. Repairing the tables was annoying, but that's life on trunk for you; there's a reason it's not recommended for production sites. Other than that, all of my upgrades have gone smoothly. In my (anecdotal) experience, most problems with upgrades (and, indeed, most problems generally) are caused by badly written or incompatible plugins.

Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

#34

Post by pierrefar »

rantfoil wrote: post #24

We'd love for you to try posterous.com -- it's a YC 2008 company and we're growing fast. It's great for a beginning blogger. It's dead simple blogs by email, and it's the easiest way to post a ton of photos or video straight from your digital camera.

Interesting. How do you control against spoofing of the From email header?

Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

#35

Post by 42flicks »

ionfish wrote: post #33
42flicks wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't run my own installation (used the hosted one for about a year) but have seen friends upgrades go not so smoothly. In keeping with various updates I'd say it'd take a bit of time.

The only time I've had problems upgrading was when, running off the trunk svn build, a new tags system which changed a bunch of database tables was introduced and then scrapped shortly afterwards. Repairing the tables was annoying, but that's life on trunk for you; there's a reason it's not recommended for production sites. Other than that, all of my upgrades have gone smoothly. In my (anecdotal) experience, most pro…

Yeah I do admit I should have included that this may have been caused by plugins.

Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

#36

Post by tptacek »

pierrefar wrote: post #34
rantfoil wrote: post #24

We'd love for you to try posterous.com -- it's a YC 2008 company and we're growing fast. It's great for a beginning blogger. It's dead simple blogs by email, and it's the easiest way to post a ton of photos or video straight from your digital camera.

Interesting. How do you control against spoofing of the From email header?

Wondering the same thing here.

Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

#37

Post by tptacek »

Strongly advise against hosting your own blog. The code quality on both MT and WordPress is very, very low. WordPress, for instance, is probably worth at least another 4-5 game-over security flaws in the next 6 months, and that's before you take the plugins into account. Kids scan the Internet for installations to drop with PHP zero-day.

Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

#38

Post by tptacek »

arc wrote: post #15

Squarespace obviously. http://www.squarespace.com/ Go ahead and try to do this in either of the others: http://www.squarespace.com/squarespaced

Gotta say, we host our own, we're DIY, we have a designer, and this thing is still dead sexy. $25/mo is cheap cheap cheap. What's the catch?

Re: WordPress or TypePad or....?

#39

Post by pageman »

mattmaroon wrote: post #22

I started off using TypePad, then went to self-hosted MT, and then started a second blog on self-hosted WP. (I also have one on WordPress.com, but I don't recommend that to anyone serious about blogging due to lack of plugins and other advanced functionality.) I think if I were starting another blog today, I might actually go with self-hosted MT. I had my WP blog compromised by a security flaw and then listed as a sp…

here's a blow-by-blow of an MT fiasco ... :(( http://inboundpass.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/our-mt-media-tem...
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