DasBlog vs WordPress – Ease of Installation

December 6th, 2006 By Vaibhav | 6 Comments » Tags: , , ,

I recently switched hosting providers from HostMySite to WebHostASP. My new hosting provider is cheaper and offers me more features.

Anyway, I also decided to change my blogging engine (my earlier blog was using Wordpress). I wanted to move over to an asp.net based blog. I am frequent listener of Hanselminutes pod cast, and Scott Hansleman uses DasBlog for his blog; so, I decided to try it out (being a fan and all that)…

Now I tried a couple of times to deploy DasBlog onto my webhost but each time I ended up with all kinds of errors (after following the instructions carefully from the forums as well). I needed something to work out-of-the-box and even though DasBlog looks very feature rich, I couldn’t get it to work right away. (i should also mention that i was only able to give it about 1-2 hours of my time, and was not willing to try and debug the problem).

So, I switched back to Wordpress (never really switched now, did I). I got it up and running in about 5-10 minutes. I WILL give DasBlog another try sometime in the future.

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6 Responses to “DasBlog vs WordPress – Ease of Installation”

  1.   Delie Says:
      October 4th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    I’ve been having exactly the same problem. I’m a .NET developer; ideally I’d like a .NET blog, so I can customise it and make it my own.

    WordPress took me about 5 minutes to setup, literally. Just create an empty MySql database, upload the files via ftp, browse to the site, and there it is – working, nothing else to do.

    So then I try out blogengine.net, repeat the above steps…what do i get? errors. so i fix the errors, then i get more errors, i fix those, and then i get a site that occasionally hits more errors as i try out new bits of functionality. So then i think “I don’t have time for this”, and give up! To be fair to BlogEngine, it was exactly the same deal with Subtext & DasBlog. And, to be fair to all of the .NET blogs, these problems are partially down to the fact that I’m on shared hosting.

    Given my situation I prefer to use WordPress, because it works out of the box, has very impressive features and a nicely organised admin panel, and is shared-hosting-friendly.

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  2.   Vaibhav Says:
      October 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    And over time as I have worked more and more with Wordpress, I have learned how to customize it to my liking; PHP is not that hard and you can always look online for the occasional syntax help required.

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  3.   Joejo Says:
      June 20th, 2008 at 4:42 am

    Delie the key to have a .net blog is finding a .net host that know what they are doing so they can support you and your .net applications. I host my .net sites with Server Intellect and if I a code issue they can resolve my issues pretty quickly. I also recommend not going with shared=)

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  4.   Vaibhav Says:
      June 20th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    Well, yes… but anything beyond shared is too much (costwise) for most of us….

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  5.   Alexander Higgins Says:
      August 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    You should really consider BlogEngine.Net. Check out my comparison of BlogEngine.Net Vs WordPress

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