Want to know how to build a blog server that is fully belonging to your own? In this series of articles, David McAmis takes you to browse a variety of possible options, as well as key factors that need to be considered before building servers.
Blogging has become very popular in recent years. These days, and even everyone will publish blog logs, from software developers to politicians, those who have been tortured, and everyone between them. In this article, we have to look at the possible options for building your own network. In my series of next article, I will run through how to set up the contents of the server, using a open source software that supports PHP and Perl.
First, you can consider a series of schemes to select the platform of the Blog server. The first question you need to ask is that you want a single blog or a multi-blog. Then you need to see what kind of server environment you can implement to deploy your Blog server. Will you use your own server or use a commercial web host? If you are using a commercial web host, what platform and language they support? We have found that most Blog servers are Linux / MySQL, but some also provide options for other platforms, including .NET. Select a blog platform
If you just want to release a single blog, there is a lot of quick and easy solutions, and you don't need you to build your own BLOG server. These include Blogger, Radio, etc. service providers. Most, these services work mechanisms are required to have their own website or web hosts to run your blog - these services also provide front-end programs for you to submit blog, or upload the blog file to the web server. This is usually the simplest solution, and there are also the most people to choose this path.
If you need more flexibility, or you want to completely control your blog, but also have your own web server or hosted to somewhere, then you are ready to set your own blog server. There are now two different types of BLOG servers depending on whether you put the blog content in the database or on the server as a file.
A file-based BLOG server is the easiest to deploy, in addition to the settings of the directory read and write permission to store your data file, do not require any other settings steps.
If you have a complex host environment that contains access to the database such as MySQL, you can consider deploying a BLOG server stored using the database to maintain the backend blog. This type of implementation is slightly complex, while you need your basic understanding of the database platform, and additional settings that make the normally required of each component. Remember, most of our BLOG servers involved in this article are also open source or free software, so sometimes the installation process is not understood, and the relevant documents are usually very small.
When you decide whether you use a file-based or database solution, the next step is the deployment of the platform. The Blog server is often written in a platform-speaking language, but should be paying attention to, these server software may just be created for a particular platform (usually Linux).
So, for example, if you choose to deploy the Blog server on the Windows platform, you may spend more time because of its installation steps. This does not mean deploying these schemes on the Windows platform, but it is said that it may spend more time or steps.
Several major BLOG servers
Blosxom is a lightweight, multi-platform BLOG server that can be used to maintain multiple Blogs without the need for a complicated step.
Environmental requirements: web server (apache, IIS, etc.), Perl
Advantages: Easy to install and configure, do not require database server support. Disadvantage: It is a small development team or developer.
Access http://www.blosxom.com/ Get more information.
Pivot
Pivot is a web-based blog server that is very easy to install and use, maintaining multiple blogs, is to avoid good replacement of backend databases.
Environmental demand: Web Server (Apache or IIS) and PHP
Advantages: Intelligent characteristics, no database backend.
Disadvantage: The reconstruction process of large blogs may be very lengthy.
Visit http://www.pivotlog.net/ to get more information.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=e99fccb3-1a8c-42b5-90ee-348f6b77c407
.Text (beta)
The Blog server created using C # and ASP.NET in the .NET platform.
Environmental requirements: IIS, .NET Framework, SQL Server or MSDE.
Advantage: Run in the Microsoft framework.
Disadvantage: It is difficult to install settings, missing document support.
More information:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=e99fccb3-1a8c-42b5-90ee-348f6b77c407
Blog website livejournal.com The popular open source framework used in the background.
Environmental demand: Perl, MySQL, Apache, MOD_PERL
Advantages: Set up intact and flexible frameworks for users and developers.
Disadvantage: It is difficult to customize, the amount of code is large.
More information: http://www.livejournal.com/developer/
Nucleus is a Blog and a press release site framework that provides a lot of plugins to extend its features (including chat, log tracking, etc.).
Environmental requirements: web server (Apache, IIS, etc.), PHP, MySQL
Advantages: Many features can be set and easy to customize;
Disadvantage: The plug-in may be difficult to install and configure.
More information: http://nucleuscms.org/
WordPress
The WordPress Publishing System is a free software based on the GPL protocol on PHP and MySQL.
Environmental demand: web server, php, mysql
Advantages: popular framework, powerful developer group
Disadvantage: It may be difficult to install and run.
More information: http://wordpress.org/
