Re:Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr
by nodesocket on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:32PM
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We (NodeSocket) are on Posterous; and so far so good. Love the fact that if a post makes the HN front page, we don't have to worry about scaling or downtime. Also, it was super easy to select a theme and modify some basic CSS rules to match our branding and website. Finally, they have some nice nerdy features as well; GitHub Gists and Vimeos automatically converted from a URL to embed.
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I used Posterous for our blogs for Mugasha and they were great. Highly recommended if you want to avoid self hosted.
Another vote for Posterous. I also like the simple customization, and the fact that I can easily add new members/contributors - a nice feature for a company blog.
Re:Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr
by charliesome on Sunday January 15, 2012 @09:03PM
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> Love the fact that if a post makes the HN front page, we don't have to worry about scaling or downtime.
If you have to worry about scaling or downtime if a blog post hits HN's front page, then I'm afraid that you screwed up really bad somewhere.
Any server should be able to handle that traffic.
Re:Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr
by nodesocket on Sunday January 15, 2012 @09:09PM
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See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3451893, scaling Wordpress isn't exactly easy, when running on shared hosting.