Another blow to Typepad - Wordpress rules
Published by Adrian Melrose July 12th, 2006 in Internet, Open Source, blog tools.
Tags: blog software, typepad, wordpress.
blog.iconcertina.com continues the discussion previously help at my Smartapps blog. This evening I tried to login to the Typepad Smartapps blog but just as Neville Hobson discovered, its down again. Ironically, I was logging on to post my LAST post in typepad - telling everyone that we have migrated our blog to a new url and also to the wonderful world of Wordpress.
Its a difficult decision to migrate platforms especially if you build the bulk of your software in Microsoft Technologies like we do. We have just built a wordpress blog called Market Thinker for Execution, one of our clients. The extra few hours spent on setting up a Linux box next to the Microsoft server to host their Wordpress blog is definitely worthwhile when considering the amazing plugins, themes and stability of Wordpress.
Tonight’s outage confirmed our informed decision. Typepad out - Wordpress in.
blog software, typepad, wordpress
It’s probably worth pointing out that you don’t need a Linux box to run Wordpress.
It will run perfectly happily in a WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP) environment.
Thanks Niall. you are quite right… for security reasons our client wanted it hosted on a separate server and since we were using an older server we thought it more cost effective to make it a linux box. Their sysadmin wanted to keep it clean and not try run mysql and Microsoftr SQL server on the same machine. (the back-end of their website runs on MS SQL) I have to admit though, my posting does read as if one doesn’t have an option but install wordpress on a linux box. ;) so thanks for alerting readers to that!