Comments on: DasBlog vs WordPress - Ease of Installation

By: Alexander Higgins

Alexander Higgins — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:41:35 +0000

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

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:25:13 +0000

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

By: Joejo

Joejo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:12:59 +0000

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=)

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:17:58 +0000

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.

By: Delie

Delie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:56:32 +0000

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.