Comments on: Quit Your Job Using Google’s Blogger http://fakerake.com/2007/216/quit-your-job-using-googles-blogger/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Fake Rake http://fakerake.com/2007/216/quit-your-job-using-googles-blogger/#comment-18373 Fake Rake Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:22:22 +0000 http://fakerake.com/2007/216/quit-your-job-using-googles-blogger/#comment-18373 Hey David, Thanks for the details and clarifications. Hosting with Blogger definitely has some benefits like you mentioned (e.g., not having to worry about overloading your server by getting Slashdotted or Dugg). And I'm starting to experiment with what you can do on Blogger myself. I think that in the end I'm just too much of a control freak to have an important site so much out of my control, however irrational that fear may be. And congratulations on how well the site's doing! Hey David,

Thanks for the details and clarifications. Hosting with Blogger definitely has some benefits like you mentioned (e.g., not having to worry about overloading your server by getting Slashdotted or Dugg). And I’m starting to experiment with what you can do on Blogger myself.

I think that in the end I’m just too much of a control freak to have an important site so much out of my control, however irrational that fear may be.

And congratulations on how well the site’s doing!

]]> By: David Hobby http://fakerake.com/2007/216/quit-your-job-using-googles-blogger/#comment-18335 David Hobby Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:18:05 +0000 http://fakerake.com/2007/216/quit-your-job-using-googles-blogger/#comment-18335 Hey there- It's David, from Strobist. Just a couple of things to add to your piece: 1. I have not technically "quit" my day job. I am on a one-year leave of absence. Parsing words, but there is a difference. 2. I initially shared your concern about the Google platform, until I actualy got to know some of the people on the Blogger team at Google. Long story short, I actually feel safer in a Blogger-hosted domain than I would on my own site. Safer from a traffic standpoint, a longevity standpoint, an IT support standpoint -- you name it. My site does 50k page views a day, and the folks at Blogger had a little chuckle when I asked if this kind of traffic was a problem. In fact, they told me that what I was doing -- creating new, real content on a daily basis -- was exactly what they want folks on Blogger to do. Google's goal is to make the web better and help people find what is out there. I have a good friend who was just "fired" by his ISP for growing too big. I do not thnk that is gonna happen to me. But if I ever get to be "too big" for Google's free service, I will gladly fly out to Maintain View, check book in hand. And this last note should not be taken as a knock on anyone else, but I am 100% certain that Google will be around in 5 years. Not so some other hosts. And if my blog goes down at 3:00 a.m., which it almost never does, dispite high traffic and over 800 posts in its archive, Google is on it ASAP. As for Strobist's pagerank of 5, of which I am very proud, I cannot imagine a more SEO-friendly content structure than a blog. Except, that is, for a blog hosted and continually indexed by Google. Signed, a very happy Google-hosted blogger, David Hobby Strobist.Blogspot.com Hey there-

It’s David, from Strobist. Just a couple of things to add to your piece:

1. I have not technically “quit” my day job. I am on a one-year leave of absence. Parsing words, but there is a difference.

2. I initially shared your concern about the Google platform, until I actualy got to know some of the people on the Blogger team at Google. Long story short, I actually feel safer in a Blogger-hosted domain than I would on my own site. Safer from a traffic standpoint, a longevity standpoint, an IT support standpoint — you name it.

My site does 50k page views a day, and the folks at Blogger had a little chuckle when I asked if this kind of traffic was a problem. In fact, they told me that what I was doing — creating new, real content on a daily basis — was exactly what they want folks on Blogger to do. Google’s goal is to make the web better and help people find what is out there.

I have a good friend who was just “fired” by his ISP for growing too big. I do not thnk that is gonna happen to me. But if I ever get to be “too big” for Google’s free service, I will gladly fly out to Maintain View, check book in hand.

And this last note should not be taken as a knock on anyone else, but I am 100% certain that Google will be around in 5 years. Not so some other hosts.

And if my blog goes down at 3:00 a.m., which it almost never does, dispite high traffic and over 800 posts in its archive, Google is on it ASAP.

As for Strobist’s pagerank of 5, of which I am very proud, I cannot imagine a more SEO-friendly content structure than a blog. Except, that is, for a blog hosted and continually indexed by Google.

Signed, a very happy Google-hosted blogger,
David Hobby
Strobist.Blogspot.com

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