Using Open Source Scripts To Blog ?
Open Source has been such a revolution not just in the programming world but also to the blogger.It has opened up opportunities that everyone can and should benefit from. Smart pixels takes a look at how open source can help you start your own website to make money online.
Why Use Open Source ?
Open source software’s come under licenses which gives the rights not only to use them for free.Some of the licenses even allow recoding these scripts the way you like.
Deciding On Platform.
Choosing the right platform for your blog is upto your preferences and what you intend to do with your blog .
1. Is it going to be a professional blog
2.Is it going to be an affiliate website
3.Is it a personal website
4.Is it going membership website
What is the best Blogging Platforms?
As far blogs go the top contenders are WordPress and Blogengine.
WordPress
WordPress is an open source blog platform which uses Php Mysql. Which means every aspect of wordpress is opensource. Php and Mysql are also opensource and can be run on linux servers which is also an opensource operating system.
So most of the hosting companies offer servers at a very competitive rate so starting a website of your own now means just paying as little as $66 year with hosting like fatcow or $7.95 per month in the case of hostgator.
Blog Engine
Blog engine is another open source blogging platform that is widely popular and extremely user friendly.
While WordPress uses php, Blogengine is an innovative open source blogging platform developed with ASP.NET 2.0. Which is an microsoft server teachnology which is not opensource and hence the cost of hosting a blogengine blog will be higher than an wordpress blog.
Here Some of the Features Compared Between these Two Open Source Blogging Platforms.
| WordPress | BlogEngine | |
|---|---|---|
| License | GNU – PL | Ms-RL |
| Cost | FREE And Open Source | FREE And Open Source |
| Server Requirements | PHP version 4.3 or greater
MySQL version 4.0 or greater |
ASP.NET 2.0 or Mono.Provider based.data storage XML or SQL Server, MySQL, VistaDB and many more |
| Multiple authors | Yes | Yes |
| User Community | http://wordpress.org/support/ | CodePlex |
| Plugins/Extension | Full extension model | Full extension model |
| Windows Live Writer | Not Available | Available |
| Password Protected Posts | Yes | No |
| Blog By Email | Available | Not Available |
| API | XML-RPC interface – Blogger API, MetaWeblog API,MovableType AP | MetaWeblog, javascript API and full SOAP web service API |
| Search Engine Friendly | Yes | Yes |
| Documentation | wiki | Docs |
Both have a lot of features which might not be used by the average blogger but at the moment word press has a slight edge over blog engine in terms of features,cost per blog and the availability of free and commercial extensions.
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