Starting a blog...

[Micah]

I'm trying to start a blog site for my extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.). I have registered a domain name, but now I need to get some space for hosting and also get the right software.

I'm sure there are hosts that specialize in this sort of thing. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd be willing to pay a monthly fee in order to avoid advertising and whatnot.

The main requirement will be to have multiple blogs (one for each family member).

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

Thanks,
Micah

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm not sure what you mean by multiple blogs. Do you mean www.domain.com/you, www.domain.com/cousin, etc?

I personally use WordPress www.wordpress.org which is really easy to setup. Well it was easy because my hosting provides a few mySQL databases and it's just the matter of creating the db, creating a user/password and then editting the config.php file.

 

[Micah]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I'm not sure what you mean by multiple blogs. Do you mean www.domain.com/you, www.domain.com/cousin, etc?

Yes, this is what I'm talking about. Each family member would have their own personal blog.

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm not certain but each blog may need it's own database. Or maybe like how I said you can add users to the db maybe that might work. Otherwise I'm not sure and it's quite possible that each blog may need its own db.

 

[BeauJangles]

can't moveabletype do this or something similar?

 

[screw3d]

Wordpress is probably the best blogging software you can get..

Since you already have a domain, all you need now is a web host.. just do a search here and you'll get a boatload of suggestions. Depending on your webhost's setup, you might use either multiple databases for multiple blogs, or a single database for multiple blogs, but each blog has a different table prefix in the database.. it's all done using the blogging software's interface (at least in Wordpress)

 

[KoolDrew]

Wordpress is probably the best blogging software you can get..