roundup of popular & emerging blogging platforms
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Types of blogging platforms
1.Hosted
2.Self-hosted
3.Desktop blogging engines
4.Hosted blog generators
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No installation
Signup & start publishing
Hosted Platforms
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Design your blog as you like
Self-Hosted Platforms
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No database queries
Blog is fast, secure and scalable
Static Blog Generators
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Hosted Static Blog Generators
Best of both self-hosted platforms
& static blog generators
•blog from anywhere
•get a fast, secure, scalable blog
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Hosted Platforms
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Wordpress
https://wordpress.com/
+ Popular platform + Largest community + Can move to self-hosted + Start for free
- No control over design - No control over performance
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Ghost
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+ Blog centric
★ Start for $8 / month
https://ghost.org
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Postagon
+ Blog centric + Markdown editing + Private posts & drafts + Custom domain
★ Start for $4.49 / month
https://www.postagon.com/
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Medium
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https://medium.com/
+ Hosted blogging + Acts as distribution channel
★ Free
- Tuned for readers; not for marketers
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Postach
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http://postach.io
+ Evernote to blog
★ $9 / month
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Self-hosted Platforms
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Wordpress
https://wordpress.org
+ Popular platform + Largest community + Support by many hosts
- Slow - Security Issues
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Ghost
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https://ghost.org
+ Blog centric
- Resource consuming (node.js)
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Weebly
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http://www.weebly.com/
+ Build a whole site + Drag & drop features + Built-in e-commerce
★ Start for free
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Statamic
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http://statamic.com/
+ No database; only files + Version controlled + Other features like
taxonomy & search
★ Starts at $29
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Static Blog Generators
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Jekyll
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http://jekyllrb.com/
+ Markdown to HTML files + Fast, secure, scalable blogs + Host on Amazon S3, Github
pages or any other server
★ Free
- Only from where it is installed
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Statiked
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http://statiked.com/
+ Desktop app + Upload to Amazon S3 or
Github Pages
★ $19.99
- Only for Mac - Blog only from installed Mac
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Cactus
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http://cactusformac.com/
+ Write, develop locally + Upload to Amazon S3 + Supports CSS preprocessors
★ Free
- Only for Mac - Blog only from installed Mac
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Hosted Static Blog Generators
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Siteleaf
flat@jjude jjude.com
http://www.siteleaf.com/
+ Supports pages, posts, taxonomy like Wordpress
+ Team publishing + Generates plain HTML + Fast, scalable & secure blogs
★ Starts at $9 per month
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Olai
flat@jjude jjude.com
http://olai.in
+ Generates plain HTML files + Automatic pushing to S3 + Fast, scalable & secure blogs
★ $5 for 10 posts
Disclaimer: I developed Olai
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