Following up on my post about the decision whether to use free software or not, this MacWorld article Blogger bugs bug bloggers- Bloggers frustrated by Blogger bugs, Google says it will get better describes the woes of those using Blogger’s free online hosting following a recent upgrade of the software. It’s upsetting to base any portion of your business on a service and have it come crashing down, but probably even more upsetting if you base it on a free service like Blogger and then have it come crashing down.
Google/Blogger says the problem affect relatively few people, but there are obviously many people who use the service as part of their commercial activities, and these people are in real deep trouble.
I avoid this by hosting my blogs on servers that I own, and I only upgrade software after making a trial installation or two and I test it at least a few days if not a week before I deploy it to other sites. (I maintain 15 WordPress sites at the moment and have two servers in operation, so this isn’t the solution for everybody.)
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