As I mentioned some time ago, the WordPress site does not list ANY non-US hosting companies.
They’re now running an adwords campaign with the text “Top 5 WordPress Web hosts, Chosen by the users & developers
of the WordPress blogging software”
Lovely!
They won’t list non-US hosts and they expect the public to swallow their bull about the listed providers having been “chosen”
So, my question is…
Does anyone know of an alternate blogging software / platform that isn’t so US-centric?
Michele Neylon :: Pensieri
Technology, Marketing, Domains, Thoughts
I’m surprised to see that, given the obvious Irish involvement with WordPress. It would be great if they setup a scheme for hosts/agents around the globe. It could be managed very easily.
As someone who relies on both WordPress and Blacknight, I know how well the two play together!
Damien
They don’t care. They’re doing that wonderful American trick of sticking their heads in the sand like ostriches and yelling “America is the centre of the universe”
It really gets on my nerves!
Michele
If their heads are in the sand, how can they yell?
Perhaps they could have an official partner in every country, for commercial support/consulting, etc., like Moodle do.
Stewart – meh. It was a mixed metaphor that got a bit tangled
James – Any attempts I’ve made to contact them about this have been met with deafening silence.
Stewart: When you’ve got your head in the sand, there’s only one end the noise can come from… 😉
BTW, is there any way you could make the Amazon links a bit more obvious? It’s annoying to hover over a link and have product information panel pop up. Double-underlining, maybe?
Keith – I’ll have a look at the code generation on the Amazon side. If I can’t change them I’ll just remove them. It was more of an experiment than anything else …
Michele, Amazon gives you the option to have differently-coloured or double-underlined links for that thing. Is anyone actually buying stuff through it, by the way?
RE: WordPress, does it really matter which hosts they list? It’s just a tool, after all, and PHP hosting is sufficiently common these days that it should run more or less everywhere.
Rob
Thanks – I’ll go check out the settings and make the change. No sales as yet 🙂
Re WordPress – I think you’re missing my point. The kind of people who are likely to choose hosts based on the WP site recommendations won’t be aware of PHP
I would just like to point out that ostriches don’t stick their head in the sand.
Michele,
I advise you to checkout DotClear 2. It is a French project, and I find it much nicer than WordPress.
http://www.dotclear.net/en/
It powered thousand websites.
Gregory
Thanks! I’ll definitely look into that.
If I could find a sane replacement I’d be more than happy to move away from WP completely
Michele
In case you still doubt about the power of this system, I can only advice you to visit some serious websites, such as :
– http://www.gandibar.net (blog of Gandi, french ICANN registrar)
– http://www.blogeek.ch (dotclear in action)
– http://www.campingclairdelune.fr/tests/?gallery/dotclear/themes-dc-2#gallery (Templates show page)
Make sure to fetch the 2 (it is much nicer than the one, more complete, more flexible, and has many great features for fighting spam).
You can add a nice spam-fighting plugin called ‘spamplemousse’.
Enjoy.
Well, this is partially European, but probably not quite what you’re looking for (almost impossible to host on a standard shared web hosting system, and so on).
http://cyrusharmon.org/projects?project=nuclblog
Robert
Either a php or perl or possibly even RoR solution
ie. something that can be deployed relatively easily
Michele
I also recommend DotClear 2