Blogspot Sucks
deanesmay
BlogSpot is down again. And even when it's up, I find that their permalinks still aren't reliable.
To all my friends on BlogSpot: please, please, please get off of it. $5 a month will get you a very nice, easy to use weblog on Typepad or Powerblogs or many other fine services. Or if you've got twenty bucks handy to register a domain name and $5 a month for hosting fees at Verve or Hosting Matters, and I'll set you up with a blog at no charge.
Please. Get off of BlogSpot. Please, please, please get off of Blogspot. I'm so sick of not being able to read your work because your links break or BlogSpot goes down, and it happens just too, too often.
To all my friends on BlogSpot: please, please, please get off of it. $5 a month will get you a very nice, easy to use weblog on Typepad or Powerblogs or many other fine services. Or if you've got twenty bucks handy to register a domain name and $5 a month for hosting fees at Verve or Hosting Matters, and I'll set you up with a blog at no charge.
Please. Get off of BlogSpot. Please, please, please get off of Blogspot. I'm so sick of not being able to read your work because your links break or BlogSpot goes down, and it happens just too, too often.
This is all legal, isn't it? I do want a better place to blog, I have 20 bucks and 5/month, but I don't want any trouble with the heat.
We told them the last 2 years they've been working at a shoe factory was, in fact, "Kindergarten." So far they buy it.. might be time for them to move to the
salt minesfirst grade.There you go, folks... Using BlogSpot can cost you an Instalanche. If nothing else moves you in what Dean has said, think about that little detail.
On an unrelated note, if this is freakishly fast, I would hate to see what you would call freakishly slow. Ugh.
I realize that Dean's CMS comes with his host, I'm just throwing that out there for consideration. I dumped Blogger/BlogSpot for Wordpress only recently when I got a "real" host.
Installation is pretty easy, but probably could be easier. Basically, you set up PHP and MySQL on your Web server, create a MySQL database, unpack WordPress to your document root, edit a config file to point to your database, and load a PHP page in a browser that does the rest. After the initial setup, you can go in and change the default blog title and so on, and you're done. The slightly longer version is here.
There are also instructions for importing from Movable Type, Blogger, and RSS.
If you're looking to move and have a server already, it's a good alternative. I don't know of anyone doing WordPress hosting, so people without servers are out of luck.
(Which reminds me: I need to ping Dean and have him update his blogroll, since my blog has moved. Dean: http://www.licquia.org/. When you get a chance, thanks.)
Well, I guess there's livejournal. Do they still offer free accounts? That's better than Blogspot.
I know some people are tight with funds, goodness knows if it weren't for ads and donations I could have had to shut down Dean's World some time ago. But I will point out again that $5/month is a pretty cheap expenditure for a hobby, and that's all a basic TypePad or Powerblogs account costs, and both are light years ahead of BlogSpot.
I also like Wordpress because it leaves a lighter footprint on your diskspace than MT - I have a two-year old blog with nearly 500 entries, and (even with a dormant copy of MT installed) I'm only using 8MB of the 100MB I'm allotted.
I'd be very happy to help; it's very frustrating with the Showcase in linking to a lot of these Blogspot entries.
It's evil. Get away from it by whatever means necessary.
and 2. I can't see my posts! And I don't know if anyone else can. I posted this morning about my mom being in surgery at 2pm est, because I wanted people to be thinking good thoughts about her, and I can't see it! Some people apparently can, because I got one comment, but that was it, and I posted this 4hrs ago!!!
Sorry to use your blog to gripe and post about my mom.
I wish I could afford to move on up, but now, I can't . Even five dollars is too much.
I'd love to take you up on this offer. Can you get my email from my account info and contact me?
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.