I have changed my blog software to WordPress, for a couple of reasons.

I have been working with WordPress for quite a while now, since fifo.sh is a WP-site.

As I was using my home machine (which has a 450 MHz CPU or so) to host my blog, I couldn’t really use WordPress, since it would have been slow as hell. So instead I chose Google’s Blogger service, which can upload static html via ssh or ftp and has template support. I created a separate user “blog” with scponly as shell, and set up blogger to upload using that user’s credits. For pure blogging, this actually works nice, and since I serve static pages via lighttpd it wouldn’t use much CPU or memory.

Now, Blogger is quite ok, if you just want to do blogging. and nothing else. But then again, Blogger doesn’t offer customized URL’s for permalinks, or the option to add dynamic content, like RSS feeds, to the sidebar. Ofcourse you could hack that using a modified template and server side includes or so, but that’s just not an option for some people.

Anyway, I’m quite content with it, and it beats MovableType…