With each blog incarnation (i.e., reboot, redesign, or relaunch) things are usually updated, upgraded, or improved. But how about a downgrade?
After months of dealing with spammers and denial of service attacks, I’ve decided to pass the bandwidth buck. I’ll be migrating my personally-hosted, personally-managed Wordpress blog over to the free, yet acceptable, Blogger.
Here’s what I’ll have to do…
- Move posts from Wordpress to Blogger (Complete: 08/27/2007)
- Update DNS (Est. Completion: 10/3/2007)
- Make things look pretty and go template tweak happy. (Est. Completion: ???)
So why do I call it a downgrade?
Blogger is a great product. It’s simple, easy to use, and free. I call it a downgrade because I will lose a lot of the tweakability that a self-hosted Wordpress installation can give. With Wordpress, I can install any of the hundreds of plugins available and dive into code to my heart’s content.
Then why downgrade the blog?
If there are so many good things about Wordpress, why go to Blogger? Simplicity. This is my “fun” blog. I don’t want to spend hours deleting spammy comments, or paying lots of money because of exorbitant bandwidth usage. Neither do I have the hours of free time that I had in the past. I’m looking for easy and free.
Blogger has improved remarkably over the years and has the basic features that I’m looking for. I also contribute to a few other Blogger-based blogs. Blogger’s dashboard gives me quick access to each of those blogs.
Wordpress or Blogger?
I love Wordpress. It’s a top notch blogging system that can also do well as a basic CMS (Content Management System). Wordpress is the system that I recommend to most of my clients.
Blogger has some powerful options, but still not as powerful as Wordpress. For personal blogs (like this one), Blogger does does the job. Though, in the end, it’s all about preference.
What do you prefer?
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