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You're somewhat mistaken. Blogger hasn't stayed still. It's actually gotten worse. They used to be the best game in town because they had a simple tool to sp

You're somewhat mistaken. Blogger hasn't stayed still. It's actually gotten worse. They used to be the best game in town because they had a simple tool to spit out a HTML-only version of your blog and FTP it wherever you wanted. The result was a blog that you could host on a cheap VPS and have it actually stand up to five people hitting it at once (unlike everybody's self-hosted Wordpress setup). It was a really cool feature, and a giant pain point when it went away because there still to this day is not a replacement for it. If you want to static-host your blog in 2011, you need to write code.

biot 15y ago
> If you want to static-host your blog in 2011, you need > to write code. Or use Amazon S3... some config needed, but no need to write code: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-...
- jasonkester 15y ago
  That's exactly my point. If you want to host a blog today on an FTP server or Amazon S3, you need to design yourself a template and build a bunch of HTML pages, either in a text editor or with some random desktop tool or something you rolled yourself. Then you need to transfer the files to the server, either by hand or via a script of some sort. If you wanted to do that 5 years ago, you'd sign up for Blogger and use their awesome free software to do it for you.
sciurus 15y ago
> If you want to static-host your blog in 2011, you need to write code. Or use software like jekyll. https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
- jasonkester 15y ago
  I appreciate that you're trying to help, but this is another example that underscores my point. This is software that you install on a server, run, then manually upload the results to a server. Blogger was a website where you could type text into a box and hit "go", thus publishing a Slashdot-proof static website via FTP. For you and me, I'll grant that there's not much of a difference there. Imagine a hosted version of Jekyll, with an option to enter a FTP host/user/pass to automatically upload posts, and you'd have a rough approximation of the service that I'm describing (and which would still be a good idea for somebody to build as a paid product).

biot 15y ago

> If you want to static-host your blog in 2011, you need > to write code. Or use Amazon S3... some config needed, but no need to write code: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-...

jasonkester 15y ago
That's exactly my point. If you want to host a blog today on an FTP server or Amazon S3, you need to design yourself a template and build a bunch of HTML pages, either in a text editor or with some random desktop tool or something you rolled yourself. Then you need to transfer the files to the server, either by hand or via a script of some sort. If you wanted to do that 5 years ago, you'd sign up for Blogger and use their awesome free software to do it for you.

sciurus 15y ago

> If you want to static-host your blog in 2011, you need to write code. Or use software like jekyll. https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

jasonkester 15y ago
I appreciate that you're trying to help, but this is another example that underscores my point. This is software that you install on a server, run, then manually upload the results to a server. Blogger was a website where you could type text into a box and hit "go", thus publishing a Slashdot-proof static website via FTP. For you and me, I'll grant that there's not much of a difference there. Imagine a hosted version of Jekyll, with an option to enter a FTP host/user/pass to automatically upload posts, and you'd have a rough approximation of the service that I'm describing (and which would still be a good idea for somebody to build as a paid product).