I thought some of you porcs would like to know about a software project I've been working on. Blogofile (http://www.blogofile.com) is a blog engine that renders completely to static HTML. You can read more about it on the website, but here's what it means to you cheap bastards:
- You can host a blog on ANY webserver, it doesn't have to have CGI, PHP, a database, or anything fancy. This means you can get a webhost for really cheap, or possibly free.
- Yea, blogger.com is free, wordpress.com is free, but I for one like to be in control of my own life, and my own stuff. So with blogofile you maintain control of your own blog.
So check out Blogofile (http://www.blogofile.com), be in control of your own site, and save money at the same time.
Cool. I wrote BlogMax (http://billstclair.com/blogmax/) a while back, an Emacs-based templating system. Used it for my blog (http://billstclair.com/blog/) for a few years, before switching to Drupal. Used it again for a while at my imacpr0n.com blog (http://imacpr0n.com/blog/), but haven't touched it in over a year.
If you're looking for inexpensive web hosting to go with your plain-HTML blog, or a MySQL-backed blogging engine, like WordPress or Drupal, I recommend NearlyFreeSpeech.net (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/) (NFS). You prepay for exactly the storage and bandwidth you use. Until your blog gets so popular that its bandwidth gets up to a gig a day or so, it really is nearly free. I use it for a bunch of my not-so-popular web sites, but I switched to site5.com for my blog, to save money.