Compendium Blogware

Two events of late that should serve as a warning to businesses looking to just start a business blog utilizing free services:

1. Journalspace is dead, and so is their content

Journalspace is no more. Countless bloggers have lost all of their content because the folks behind Journalspace were convinced that RAID drives were an appropriate backup methodology. Ouch. The only recommendation on the site is to try to get back content via Google Cache. Double-ouch.

2. Google Feedburner has significant latency issues

Feedburner is having severe caching issues where feeds are not updating for 30 minutes to several hours. For retailers and businesses with initiatives that are time-dependent, this is unacceptable!

The architecture of Compendium Blogware is built for a business. We have backups, off-site backups, redundant databases and even an off-site replicated system in the event of disaster recovery. Our amazing development and architecture teams have even implemented Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2 Cloudbursting in the event that our client gets an unprecedented bump in traffic.

When they host their blog on a freebie site, businesses assume that these kinds of things are taken care of. Typically, they are not.

Comments for Do You Trust your Blogging Platform?

Monday, January 5, 2009 by Josh Hallett:: While FeedBurner's issues are well, an issue....what alternative do you suggest for the metrics you receive on RSS subscribers/reads?
Monday, January 5, 2009 by Douglas Karr:: Great question, Josh! We've got our own metrics for RSS built into our application; however, for other platforms there doesn't seem to be an option. I've been thinking about what it might take to build a plugin just for calculating subs with use of an img tag and unique identifier.