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[P Andersson]

Have just a couple of posts so far in an experimental blog through blogger. Before going deeper why not see what this community knows on the subject of blogging platforms. The goal for me was to find the best way to put up the highest quality video clip every few weeks or so without having to open up any web design tool.

What is the word on Blogger, Wordpress or Tumblr?

But then the thread might as well talk about all the interesting blogs out there related to our interest in film and technology or to simply post a link to your own blog.

[Martin Weiss]

Can recommend wordpress; flexible, you can digg into it and adjust it to your needs. I use it both for blogging and CMS.

[Andrew Martin]

Wordpress for me too.

Andrew.

[P Andersson]

do you guys use the yourdomain.wordpress site or is it better to host it yourself

[Andrew Martin]

I use the domain.wordpress - but then again i'm only about 2 weeks into blogging myself - so. I took it up after reading Joseph Mallozzi's blog. (writer of Stargate Atlantis) Hes done quite a bit with his one and hes now been blogging for almost 2 years no solid.

Andrew.

[Martin Weiss]

Host it yourself. You save yourself from headaches down the road.

[Steven M. Bailey]

my evil blog I never post to.

http://blownapartstudios.wordpress.com/

avert your eyes!:gun:

[Curran Giddens]

I use Apple's iWeb app (part of iLife). Works best if you have an Apple me.com account (.mac).

http://www.solarsystemstudio.com/SolarSystem/Blog/Blog.html

It looks like Mark L. Pederson of Offhollywood also uses iWeb.

http://www.OffhollywoodBuzz.com/OBuzz/Blog/Blog.html

[Mark L. Pederson]

It looks like Mark L. Pederson of Offhollywood also uses iWeb.

http://www.OffhollywoodBuzz.com/OBuzz/Blog/Blog.html

Yeah ... but I think I'm gonna migrate to Wordpress with Flickr widgets.

[P Andersson]

thanks for all the great feedback and links everybody, blownapart's is classic:

"I once had a cat named Red
Who always would land on his head"

so it seems everybody is pretty much voting for wordpress and hosting it yourself - what about design and content - anybody seen any real stylish or informative blogs around the web

[MikeHedge]

mikehedge.com asthedustsettles.com both on wordpress

[Andrew Martin]

andrewthewriter.wordpress.com is me, at the moment its mainly about my photography and me being ill at the moment. But that will change in 2 weeks lol.

http://andrewthewriter.wordpress.com/

Andrew.

[mjeppsen]

FreshDV (http://www.freshdv.com) is built on a self-hosted Wordpress install. IMHO it's the most extensible blogging platform out there, with tons of plugins available and new ones being developed all the time. With a good mySQL host and intelligent caching settings it scales well. The latest version makes updates and administration a cinch.

[P Andersson]

FreshDV (http://www.freshdv.com) is built on a self-hosted Wordpress install. IMHO it's the most extensible blogging platform out there, with tons of plugins available and new ones being developed all the time. With a good mySQL host and intelligent caching settings it scales well. The latest version makes updates and administration a cinch.

How important is it to get into the mySQL stuff - I am willing to go down the road a little bit, just hoping it is not as complex as it was learning flash for example.

Is there a good and economic host server to sign up with where a decent size flash or quicktime movie will not be bottlenecked by the host server. I have so far dealt with Verio and Godaddy and feel maybe it is time to move all images and movie files to a new host. Suggestions welcome.

thanks

[mjeppsen]

How important is it to get into the mySQL stuffDon't worry about the MySQL details, just find a decent host that who's DB servers aren't slammed with shared hosting clients. For instance, Dreamhost has brilliant bandwidth plans, but their database servers are horrifically slow. We moved our databases and basic http to MediaTemple (http://tinyurl.com/4jkjng) for that reason. They don't appear to oversell their database hosting as much, and you can upgrade to semi-dedicated database containers if/when traffic gets hot and heavy. However, MediaTemple bandwidth caps are lower, hence our combo hosting solution.


Is there a good and economic host server to sign up with where a decent size flash or quicktime movie will not be bottlenecked by the host server.We've been happy with Dreamhost (http://tinyurl.com/482xym) for purely file storage and bandwidth. Files upload and download fast, and they offer a TON of storage space and bandwidth. Files are clearly not their bottleneck, databases are. If you don't need a db with them, they're fine. Currently we're getting 7 Terabytes of bandwidth monthly, for just $10/mo. That's hard to beat...