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nadnerB

G'Day Mangoites,

I've been considering setting up a blog as a dumping ground for scripts and solutions that I find for various things.

What do you use?
Do any of the multitudes of options support code tags to format code readably?

At this point, I don't really care about traffic to it and I'm not in a position to pay for hosting or register a domain.

scottalanmiller

WordPress.

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Carnival Boy

I use a free account at Wordpress.com but am about to switch to Wordpress on a hosted account with my own domain name.

thanksajdotcom

Wordpress.

thanksajdotcom

Setting up your own Wordpress server is plenty easy, and you can setup your own website pretty cheap. You can also always setup a Wordpress site on their network with a domain.wordpress.com setup for free, I think.

scottalanmiller

I've used Blogger before for some one off blogs.

FYI, i do not blog at all................

thanksajdotcom

Scott and I both blog. My site is technically a blog.

Blog or not I tend to prefer Wordpress and Joomla for CMS. (Concerte5 is also nice to but not as developed and a lot of extensions cost). Some people say Typo3 is much better, but I hate it for sites or blogs, the interface is annoying and I can make a much better site with using Wordpress and extensions.

You need to find a Good host with decent PHP and SQL preformance otherwise even with caching load times will be slow. I would stay away from Godaddy for sure. DreamHost, HostGator, Rackspace (expensive) all seem to be good.

thanksajdotcom

@thecreativeone91 said:

Blog or not I tend to prefer Wordpress and Joomla for CMS. (Concerte5 is also nice to but not as developed and a lot of extensions cost). Some people say Typo3 is much better, but I hate it for sites or blogs, the interface is annoying and I can make a much better site with using Wordpress and extensions.

You need to find a Good host with decent PHP and SQL preformance otherwise even with caching load times will be slow. I would stay away from Godaddy for sure. DreamHost, HostGator, Rackspace (expensive) all seem to be good.

NTG is a Rackspace partner, so if you want it through them, which is a great service, it'll be cheaper.

@ajstringham said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Blog or not I tend to prefer Wordpress and Joomla for CMS. (Concerte5 is also nice to but not as developed and a lot of extensions cost). Some people say Typo3 is much better, but I hate it for sites or blogs, the interface is annoying and I can make a much better site with using Wordpress and extensions.

You need to find a Good host with decent PHP and SQL preformance otherwise even with caching load times will be slow. I would stay away from Godaddy for sure. DreamHost, HostGator, Rackspace (expensive) all seem to be good.

NTG is a Rackspace partner, so if you want it through them, which is a great service, it'll be cheaper.

Still way more expensive than something like HostGator at ~$4.00 a month with great service. Rackspace is great but it's way overkill for most things. Mine runs great on Hostgator and even has SQL heavy stuff on it Such as vTiger and a Inventory tracking system.

technobabble

I also suggest WordPress as it is one of the easiest CMS/blog platforms to use.

JaredBusch

@nadnerB said:

What do you use?

WordPress on CentOS 7

@nadnerB said:

Do any of the multitudes of options support code tags to format code readably?

There are plugins for that. More than one. I am currently using this one.
http://i.imgur.com/7ufzedR.jpg

The plugin home page is in Chinese.
http://boliquan.com/wp-code-highlight/

JaredBusch

http://i.imgur.com/LsCKg1I.jpg

nadnerB

Thanks everyone, especially @JaredBusch. I can't thank you enough

I'm still coming to terms with the fact that you spooled up a testing ground for me to tinker with!
Totally sold on the WordPress platform.

thanksajdotcom

@nadnerB said:

Thanks everyone, especially @JaredBusch. I can't thank you enough

I'm still coming to terms with the fact that you spooled up a testing ground for me to tinker with!
Totally sold on the WordPress platform.

Wordpress is an awesome platform. It's free and easy. More websites than you might think are built on it.

scottalanmiller

Yeah, millions I think.

JaredBusch

@nadnerB said:

Thanks everyone, especially @JaredBusch. I can't thank you enough

I'm still coming to terms with the fact that you spooled up a testing ground for me to tinker with!
Totally sold on the WordPress platform.

Waiting on the DNS to propagate the new subdomain was the longest part of the entire process.

scottalanmiller

When I use CloudFlare, adding a subdomain only takes about five to ten minutes before it works everywhere that we test.