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- peterjmag, on 01/22/2008, -7/+51In other news, WordPress burned to the ground today after a user attempted to actually make use of his extra 2.95GB.
- ChromaVita, on 01/22/2008, -6/+38someone make a Wordpress page that actually uses all 3gb, and submit it to digg. Then just sit back and laugh.
- goyney, on 01/22/2008, -9/+26Wait, 3GB or storage or 3GB of bandwidth? What is 3GB of storage going to do for you when 20 megs of bandwidth later the site is down. WordPress sucks.
- Nightfall, on 01/22/2008, -1/+17I love the misinformed or misled Digg users who know nothing about Wordpress claiming that it can't handle the digg effect. Therefore, Wordpress sucks. Lets clarify a few things first...
1. Wordpress, like any other software, is only as good as the host it is on. If you are on a crap host, you are going to know about it when the digg effect hits your site. If you have a good host, that will fix most of your potential site crashing or bandwidth related issues right there.
2. Load the right plugins. You have WP-cache which works wonders and isn't hard to load or configure for that matter.
Whats so damn difficult about understanding that? - nightwave, on 01/22/2008, -6/+18Dear God,
Please fix WordPress database load handling, then make them add more storage.
Love, nightwave. - johneyoung, on 01/22/2008, -0/+8Very cool....nice feature! As far as everyone hating Wordpress, I've found that for casual blogging it's easy and has nice options. Maintenance free, too.
- notjustmii, on 01/22/2008, -0/+7Put wordpress on you own hosting and you can have as much bandwidth as you want and none of their ads, really a novel concept.
- kkiran, on 01/22/2008, -0/+6Do they still permit ads or is it that they put their own banners?? perfect for beginners though, jump on the bandwagon!!
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -0/+5But guys!!! What about Pownce's pro upgrade?! You can PAY $20 for 100MB of storage! That's way cooler!
- Nightfall, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4Uh, you require a good webhost. If you don't have a good webhost, then it doesn't matter what software you run. Duh.
As for loading a plugin in Wordpress, if you can't handle opening a ftp program, doing an upload, and then turning on the plugin in the Wordpress software, then you have serious problems. - xdvx, on 01/22/2008, -1/+5Why the hell you need 3GB for blog?
- tropican8, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4Those Wordpress errors you see all over the interweb are from idiots using the Wordpress blogging platform on shared hosts. This article is about Wordpress the website, not the blogging software. Wordpress.com provides quite a bit of bandwidth.
- truspect0r, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4Read the TOS thats where the secrets at. There will be no use.
- jazzboyrules, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4I started a blog on Wordpress just a week back to check why the heck people favor Wordpress to other blogs. And it turns out, I too became a fan of Wordpress. I have used Blogger, but this is too different, in a good way. The traffic handling traffic is decent enough for non-digg bandwidth requirement. Who knows? They may even improve the bandwidth strength in future.
- dupeduperson, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4I am going to make a blog called "my backup documents"
- Wartz, on 01/22/2008, -1/+4pirated software
- quack, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3For hosting your own videos, podcasts etc. I would imagine.
- kupa, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3you do realize sites like techcrunch are powered by wordpress right? which basically negates you're uninformed comment.
- Nightfall, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3Dear God,
Please help the misinformed Digg users out. They are under the impression that Wordpress is a problem because they can't stand the Digg effect when in fact it is due to a crap webhost and/or the fact they aren't using WP-Cache, which doesn't take rocket science to install. Please give them a little intelligence to look up these facts before slamming on Wordpress.
Love, Nightfall - betterth, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3No ads on free blogs.
- Firehed, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3Wordpress.com offers all the bandwidth you'll need for any normal blog. The issue arises on the cheap shared hosting plans running a WP blog.
- Firehed, on 01/22/2008, -1/+3It's fine if you've got a solid host. The problem is that all of the WP blogs that get dugg are on a cheap $5/month shared host and don't have any caching enabled. Sure, the DB load (and the scripting load for that matter) is much worse than it should be, but the real problem is the oversold servers.
- spyrochaete, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2Do you have prehistoric bifocals or haven't you noticed that Youtube quality is garbage?
- foxter, on 01/22/2008, -2/+4God's not in today, but you can always read up on optimizing your database performance and use caching. Falling short of that, you can always go with Movable Type, which does the caching by default and it developed by an actual company.
- jazzboyrules, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2From the horse's mouth: "You still need a space upgrade to upload certain file types, like movies,..." Source: http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/21/three-gigabyt ...
May be this 3GB can serve as a backup for pics, for people who don't use Flickr or similar services (Though nothing beats Flickr). - Llanowar, on 01/22/2008, -1/+3I bet that one look at that page would crash the entire internet.
- Balk2K, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2Do you think you'd be able to upload large Quicktime videos to a Wordpress account and then embed them on external pages?
I couldn't see anything about stuff like that in the TOS - TypeEE, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2why host your own video when you have youtube, unless your content is pirated.
- spyrochaete, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2I'll subscribe to your RSS.
- MarkJaquith, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1> Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform
Other way around. WordPress is the blogging platform behind Automattic. WordPress predates Automattic. WordPress is an Open Source project from which many people and companies (including, but not limited to Automattic) benefit.
And the title should read "WordPress.com now offers 3GB of space free" - PueSi, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1But you have to pay...
- spyrochaete, on 01/22/2008, -1/+2Options? Work for them for free? It's a nonprofit open source project. What the hell are you talking about? It's free for everyone and any options not listed in the GUI can be found in the source code. What more do you want? Matt Mullenweg to drive to your parent's house and dress you in your jammies before beddie bye?
- TypeEE, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1That's the biggest problem when I first tried wordpress. No ads, while google bloggers can have ads. It costs $15 to edit the CSS. Cost me $100 a year for dreamhost which I split between couple friends, and after the site is running for 2 months, it google adsense pay off the dreamhost server cost already.
- inactive, on 01/23/2008, -0/+1Ignorant idiot.
- TypeEE, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1If you have a half decent blog, adsense will pay off the server cost really easily. I didn't believe it at first, but money is easy if your goal is only to cover server cost.
- farffa, on 01/25/2008, -0/+1I prefer self hosted.
- spyrochaete, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1I pay $3/month for 100GB of storage and 1000GB of transfers. Save your visitors the frustration and pay the 3 bucks out of pocket without showing ads.
- zaffir, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1If you're referring to their free blog hosting, are they not providing that... for free?
If you don't like it, go somewhere else. - TypeEE, on 01/22/2008, -1/+1I hate it because it's doesn't give users that much options, no ads is the biggest problem. They are basically asking you to work for them for free.
- TypeEE, on 01/22/2008, -1/+1Can you give a time frame as to when god has to respond? So that you know either god is not listening, or god doesn't want to help you, or god doesn't exist?
- HarryTruman, on 01/22/2008, -3/+3Decent hosting for Wordpress sites would be more useful than extra storage...
- inactive, on 01/23/2008, -1/+1You're wrong.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -5/+5Awesome! We'll have hundreds more wordpress sites suffering from the digg effect.
- Rikushix, on 01/22/2008, -3/+2Bandwidth over storage. They're called priorities.
- V1ncent, on 01/22/2008, -4/+1What's so damned difficult about understanding that all the other blogging software out there does not need 1&2 to not crash? With WP, 1&2 are REQUIREMENTS.Duh.
- JesusXP, on 01/22/2008, -5/+1What good is 3gb when you can never view the page whenever its dugg... Stop pimping WordPress here altogether.. Nothing is more dissapointing than trying to visit one of these stupid blogs. Consistently out..
- Zippo, on 01/22/2008, -6/+1The bigger they are, the harder they fall (from the digg effect)
- crazybugger, on 01/22/2008, -7/+2www.wordpress.com. Click. Message: "Error 404. Page not found."
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