Blogin software recoendations

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stan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 
>>stan wrote:
>>
>>>I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the
>>>ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem
>>>to have the ability to allow me to define individual blogs for each person,
>>>which is what I need. I'd like for each persons blog to have a unique URL.
>>>
>>>Am I missing how to do this in wordpress? Or is there a more appropriate
>>>choice?
>>
>>Read the fine documentation :-):
>>
>>http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
>>http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPressMU
>>
> 
> I did run across both of these, in looking at the documentation.
> 
> The first choice, while seeming to be the better of the 2 looked to be a
> bit "heavyweight", as each user would have his own complete install of
> wrodpress. Seems like an admin nightmare to me.
> 
> The 2nd is listed as alpha quality software. Doesn't sound like a great
> idea to me.
> 
> Am I thinkining incorectly here?
> 

While not the final word, I found this page worthwhile in deciding.

http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm

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