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Ask HN: What platform/product do u use for your blogs?

2 points by Eugene3v ↗ HN
If you could list some of the reasons or <like>/<not like> would be greatly appreciated.

For all of you suspicious minds out there, no I am not creating another platform for blogs, I really do need one for my product.

Thank you !

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delano
I use Jekyll for http://solutious.com/blog. I like it b/c it's a static site generator so the site itself is just a bunch of files (no database, etc...). Jekyll is also integrated into GitHub so the site itself is built and hosted on their servers. All I have to do is push my commits.
movix
Posterous - great eamil interface, effortless blog creation and updating and the Share on Posterous widget rocks
Eugene3v
I should have mentioned earlier that I want to host it or at least have my own domain point to it.
showerst
Wordpress is dead simple, flexible, and offers an infinite array of plugins (Of particular value are Akismet for spam filtering and some of the Cache plugins that make your pages serve fast).

On the down side, it requires constant security updates, and has a bit of a learning curve if you're trying to customize it. (It's also in written in PHP, which is a big problem for some people).

I've used it on my personal site and many work projects and found it to be great as long as you're willing to pay attention to updates and find/install plugins that fit your site.

nreece
Wordpress is bloated and slow under high-traffic. Tumblr and Posterous are more leaner options.
showerst
If you're expecting heavy traffic, there are a number of cache plugins that allow you to serve static files.

A properly set-up blog will hold up to a front page Digging/Reddit-ing even on a cheap host.