Last week I described the easiest method to start a new blog (web log): sign up for a service that hosts blogs on their own servers. Indeed, that process is usually simple and inexpensive. However, for business reasons or for personal preferences, many people will want their blogs hosted on their own servers so that the URL displayed in the top of the web browser shows the desired domain name, not that of a blog hosting service.
Another reason for installing blog software is because you might want some features that are not available on a remote hosting service. For instance, the Plus Edition articles of this newsletter are posted in a password-protected blog on this newsletter's web site at http://www.eogn.com/plusedition/blogplus. None of the blogging services that I found could support a separate user name and password for each reader and keep them up-to-date easily. Since the user name and password system was already installed on the eogn.com web server, putting the blog software on the same web server was the best solution for me.
Installing blog software on a web server is not as simple as uploading static HTML pages.
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