I hope it is not to be, but I have already found a new web hosting company to replace Yahoo! hosting, who run this blog …. should the unthinkable buyout from Mickeysoft go ahead.
I have also kind of found a replacement for Flickr …. del.icio.us will be hard to replace
So PLEASE let sanity prevail and don’t let share market greed win this one!!
Hi Csaba, reading your blog with interest, though I can’t comment it in any way. Interesting stuff. I have a question partly relatee, since your are talking about plattform, which bolg server or host do you recommend? I want to give mine a mondern view, so do I choose Blogspot.com or Wordpress.org. Are there some ‘do’ and ‘don’t’ things in these communities…..
Thanks and best wishes to down under.
Nils
Hello Nils, what a nice surprise my friend. This blog runs on Wordpress but is currently hosted at Yahoo!, which might change in the near future if Microsoft wins. I will probably move the whole site to a new hosting company that runs on some form of Unix (like Linux). Many of them do, thankfully!
If you want to find out what operating system/web server a site is running, try
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph
See “What’s that site running?” at the top of the page?
I have not had any experience with either of the services you mention, but a bit of poking reveals interesting information:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Fstart
so blogspot is a Google service on Linux, which is probably a pretty good bet if you want hassle free hosting. Google seem to be taking over the world right now, so you might as well join them while you can!
I guess wordpress.org don’t host a blog for you? They recommend some hosting companies
http://wordpress.org/hosting/
Of course Wordpress.org also runs on Linux.
I have no idea how much configuration you can get with blooger.com, but if its free its worth a try!
I know I was a little bit disappointed with wordpress on Yahoo! I think it is more Yahoo’s fault than wordpress though. I think any gigantic company is going to suck when it comes to service and real customization.
Anyway I just set one up. Looks O.K. A lot more basic than Wordpress in terms of plugins, modules, etc.
http://csabaveres.blogspot.com/
So if blogger doesn’t do what you want, I recommend getting in touch with a local hosting service … someone you can actually talk to, preferably in Norwegian!!! Most people will support wordpress, which seems to be a good platform.
Hope this helps!
I just noticed Opera also do a blog. I normally love everything Opera does:
http://my.opera.com/csabaveres/blog/