Like Blogger.com, but more decent. Or Wordpress, which unfortunately doesn't work for me no matter which computer I log in from. :bugeye:

I use www.livejournal.com since 2002

www.sciforums.com

I use www.livejournal.com since 2002
Really? May I see it? I've only seen crappy websites in it so far.... :shrug:

WOW. Post a link, do it for the good of mankind.

I've only seen crappy websites in it so far.... :shrug:
What does it have to do with how your website is going to be?

Depends. A lot of those kinds of services are inflexible. A lot of them have templates (that could be ugly). Many are fairly disorganized and flashy. A lot of them have ads.

Then you'll just have to check for yourself. As for me I'm satisfied with LJ.

So I'm hunting around looking for an image for something, which probably won't materialise into anything other than a waste of time and well in my question I come across what appears to be a blogging spot.

http://www.makezine.com/

However the bloggers are electronics enthusiasts that well create loads of weird and wonderful contraptions, thought I would share it with you all since after this is a science forum and well what they do kind of borders on just that.

If all else fails and you have a broandband account behind a router - just host if from your own computer, no restrictions at all, or ads and it's FREE! You'll be given a list of host addresses to use, or you can register a domain - they cost nothing these days.

The first thing you need a is a dynamic dns account, head to dyndns.org

open an account, download a client,
go to portforward.com, find out what your external ip address is. Input your dyndns.org account info into the client you downloaded. Open, or 'port-forward' the ports you gonna use, usually port 80. There are instructions for most routers on that site.

Open port 80, or whichever you choose on your firewall, download apache, read the faq and that'll all done in a a weekend I reckon. There are heaps of tutorials out there to achieve this, I'm just giving you a heads-up on the possibility. BTW, I run linux, so it's setup a bit different on mine, but if you wanna try this , I'd be glad to answer questions :)

Doesn't hosting your own use up your bandwidth?

I've come across a few decent looking blogs on blogmosis.com.

Doesn't hosting your own use up your bandwidth?


Hosting your own does use up bandwidth and depending on how popular your blog is decides on whether or not people can view it. Basically your Upload bandwidth is shared between all those that connect to the system, if you are using only one system you then have limitations in regards to the OS, Software and Hardware for instance there is no caching or load balancing like you'd get on a dedicated server housed in a backbone.

Also hosting at home tends to ID your gateway since anyone can follow your IP changes through your hosted blog.

These are just some of the pitfalls.

These public blog sites have one big advantage - others may add you as friend or contact and easily read your entries, also it's a lot easier to find your blog.
If you'd host it on your own server, frequent readers would be far fewer