I just tried to login @ blogger.com and I got an "Internal Server Error." Wow. Wouldn't expect this sort of thing from a g00gle owned property. AmCy
I set up a blog a few days ago. I used the remote publishing functionality (i.e. Blog is administered via blogger, but the pages are uploaded to my server via sftp). It worked OK the first day ... The next day I publish it got persistently stuck on "Publishing ... 0%", I checked my server logs, and active connections: ftp.blogger.com kept establishing a sftp connection, but wasn't trying to authenticate itself, it just hung there until the connection timed out, and then it would go through the whole process again. To cut the story short, I had to block ftp.blogger.com at my firewall, because it wouldn't quit, and blogger doesn't have a f**king cancel button. So yeah, for a company owned by Google I also expected better.
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I pretty much don't even try to publish anything via Blogger.com in the middle of the day. They are in need of some server upgrades over there. It is very annoying.
I'm always getting errors with Blogger, however WordPress never has issues since it's hosted on my site.
I tried to update my profile page, spent 10 minutes, pressed the submit button and the data was lost to an error page. SEbasic said he was having problems for the longest time, so I would say that it could be a waste of time. They have way too many pages and not enough Indians (server power)
Definitely a good idea to host a blog on your own domain. I'm actually quite surprised to find that most people don't bother to set this up. It only requires very basic knowledge of FTP and server paths to get it going. And having it on your own domain name looks professional (and cool.) AmCy
AMC, I am sure Shawn would welcome you starting a "How To Set up your own Blog on your own server" thread right here in this forum. Why not start one and leave the link in this thread so we can all join in I know I would like to see one also
It's a good idea but--to be perfectly honest--I feel it would be somewhat redundant. I found the instructions for setting up a blogger blog on my own domain very perspicuous and straight forward, so all I can do is recommend that users who want to set it up should just read the instructions that blogger provides. Of course, I am more than willing to help anyone who is having trouble setting it up. I am happy to help AmCy
I host all of my own blogs (all but 2), but I use Blogger.com to manage them all on one page. When Word Press comes out with a real multi-user solution I will switch all of them over (I use it on my personal blog and love it). Blogger is the best muti-blog (the only I have seen), multi-user setup I have seen.
I am talking about using open source software and putting it up on a hosting package. If anyone wants to start that thread leave a link here and I will post some software links and articles to it. What I am looking for is someone that knows something about hosting packages needed and FTP to lead the way here.
A couple of years from now the number of blogs out there should multiply. I wonder if they are going to be prepared for that amount of badnwidth usage.
You know how many spam blogs are in blogger? It's to easy to create one and it's not good. They are setting them selves up for trouble.
Google bought it as a platform to run ADSENSE on and to test their ability to be a webhost.... Are they doing a good job Maybe the best they can with the amount of pages being put up... But they have too many pages on too few servers. There is a cost to pay for FREE http://news.com.com/3,000+blogs+lose+their+voice/2100-1038_3-5236308.html?tag=html.alert
makes sense, but the spammers will take over and Google will be back to what they are going thru right now with regular results. Like having sandboxes or whatever