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Types of blogging platforms
1.Hosted
2.Self-hosted
3.Desktop blogging engines
4.Hosted blog generators
No installation
Signup & start publishing
Hosted Platforms
Design your blog as you like
Self-Hosted Platforms
No database queries
Blog is fast, secure and scalable
Static Blog Generators
Hosted Static Blog Generators
Best of both self-hosted platforms
& static blog generators
•blog from anywhere
•get a fast, secure, scalable blog
Hosted Platforms
Wordpress
https://wordpress.com/
+ Popular platform + Largest community + Can move to self-hosted + Start for free
- No control over design - No control over performance
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Ghost
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+ Blog centric
★ Start for $8 / month
https://ghost.org
Postagon
+ Blog centric + Markdown editing + Private posts & drafts + Custom domain
★ Start for $4.49 / month
https://www.postagon.com/
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Medium
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https://medium.com/
+ Hosted blogging + Acts as distribution channel
★ Free
- Tuned for readers; not for marketers
Postach
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http://postach.io
+ Evernote to blog
★ $9 / month
Self-hosted Platforms
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Wordpress
https://wordpress.org
+ Popular platform + Largest community + Support by many hosts
- Slow - Security Issues
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Ghost
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https://ghost.org
+ Blog centric
- Resource consuming (node.js)
Weebly
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http://www.weebly.com/
+ Build a whole site + Drag & drop features + Built-in e-commerce
★ Start for free
Statamic
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http://statamic.com/
+ No database; only files + Version controlled + Other features like
taxonomy & search
★ Starts at $29
Static Blog Generators
Jekyll
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http://jekyllrb.com/
+ Markdown to HTML files + Fast, secure, scalable blogs + Host on Amazon S3, Github
pages or any other server
★ Free
- Only from where it is installed
Statiked
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http://statiked.com/
+ Desktop app + Upload to Amazon S3 or
Github Pages
★ $19.99
- Only for Mac - Blog only from installed Mac
Cactus
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http://cactusformac.com/
+ Write, develop locally + Upload to Amazon S3 + Supports CSS preprocessors
★ Free
- Only for Mac - Blog only from installed Mac
Hosted Static Blog Generators
Siteleaf
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http://www.siteleaf.com/
+ Supports pages, posts, taxonomy like Wordpress
+ Team publishing + Generates plain HTML + Fast, scalable & secure blogs
★ Starts at $9 per month
Olai
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http://olai.in
+ Generates plain HTML files + Automatic pushing to S3 + Fast, scalable & secure blogs
★ $5 for 10 posts
Disclaimer: I developed Olai
Thank you
