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Re:New attacks today against Wordpress (lots of sites hacked) by hkuo on Friday May 07, 2010 @02:25PM (#1328335)
As I mentioned in my other comment, I give a thumbs up to Movable Type, particularly in regards to security. The only database access is done on the admin side. When you publish anything, it generates pure html pages. So only you access the database. Users only access html. There are no complexities between these two arrangements.

Movable Type takes just a little longer to set up than WordPress, but hey, many of us here are hackers right? Plus you can tweak the code to your heart's content.

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Re:New attacks today against Wordpress (lots of sites hacked) by ElliotH on Friday May 07, 2010 @03:53PM (#1328532)
Static HTML is also a lot less resource intensive.

I think the main thing in the way of people using MT is that lots of people get their first introduction to blogging on some free WP hosting first and consider the switch to commercial shared hosting to be an upgrade. People like this wouldn't see switching blog platform as an upgrade so much as an inconvenience.

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