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Finding the right self-host Blog platform – what are the options?
Friday, 21 September 2007
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As part of my ongoing Blog revitalisation, one of the improvements is to move to a self-hosted Blog platform to give me maximum flexibility with layout and design. I guess the first step here is to trawl the Internet to find suitable platforms. My current web host at www.jasonslater.co.uk and www.monkandhisitjunk.com is IIS with ASP.NET but many of the self-host platforms seem to require PHP. I am not particularly worried about using PHP having used it many times in the past but it is an added complexity to consider. It leaves me wondering what the tangible benefits of a PHP solution over an ASP.NET solution are – and more importantly why there are many more PHP solutions than ASP.NET other than PHP being open source?
The Blogging platforms I have found so far, in alphabetical order are:
Blog uses PHP
Blojsom uses Java
Blosxom uses MySQL and PHP
B2Evolution uses mySQL and PHP
Chyrp uses mySQL, PHP and AJAX
Drupal uses PHP
ExpressionEngine uses mySQL and PHP
Greymatter uses PERL
Joomla uses PHP and mySQL
Mambo uses Apache, MySQL and PHP
Mephisto uses Ruby
MovableType uses MySQL and Perl/PHP
Nucleus uses MySQL and
Pivot uses PHP
PyBloxsom uses Python
Pylogger uses Python
Serendipity uses PHP
SuLogo uses PHP and mySQL
TextPattern uses mySQL and PHP
Thingamablog uses Java
Typo uses Ruby
WordPress.org uses MySQL and PHP
Xoops uses PHP
Though it should be noted that some of these systems describe themselves as complete CMS (Content Management Systems), see Wiki on CMS for more, that offer many other modules in addition to Blogging.
If you are aware of any other self-host Blog platforms please add them through comments and I will add them to this list.
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Jason, its got to WordPress.
It has a feature that allows you import blogs from other platforms. Many moons ago Terinea Weblog started on blogger when I didn’t know any better. If you need any help with PHP/MySQL I can give you a hand. What my techie guys don’t know about PHP etc isn’t worth knowing. WordPress is very simple to install. It has lots of pluggins that will help you increase your readership base.
I was meaning to write something on your post the other day, but I’ve been so busy this week, just not had time. Maybe tonight I will.
Jamie
Thanks Jamie,
I’m building a new Ubuntu build right now which hopefully by the end of the day should have Apache/PHP/ and MySQL upon it. This at least should give me a decent platform for evaluating the possiblities. That said, everything I’ve read so far seems to point to Wordpress.
Jas.
There are couple of Ruby blogging tools, like Mephisto (http://mephistoblog.com/) and Typo (http://www.typosphere.org/).
There are some in Python too like Pylogger (http://www.sajjadzaidi.com/pylogger/) and PyBlosxom (http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/).
However, WordPress is one of the most active ones, where you will see lot of updates and a strong community to help.
Hello Abhijit and thanks for the pointers – I will add them to the Blog post.
Jas.
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