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by Weiqi Gao.
Original Post: My Other Blog Is A WordPress
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The initial mission of the new blog is to get me familiarized with WordPress and PHP so that I can say something more intelligent on this subject. Once that is done, I'll use it to explore some other topics.
My first impression so far:
The initial setup of WordPress is comparable to that of Pebble.
The WordPress blog feels snappier than Pebble, although both are more than adquate.
WordPress takes noticably longer to save blog entries than Pebble does.
Both seems to support the same set of basic features.
WordPress's blog editor text area is more developed (more Quicktags) than Pebble's.
WordPress relies on PHP, which is available in the default installation of Fedora Core 3. Pebble relies on Java and Tomcat, which are not available by default.
The bottom line, as I see it, is this: If I want to setup a blog and I'm not a PHP programmer, I can still setup WordPress. If I want to setup a blog and I'm not a Java programmer, there is not way that I can setup Pebble.
I agree with David Herron on his accessment of the reason for the lack of Java hosting services.
Eric Burke's argument that Java hosting requires more memory can explain why Java hosting is more expensive. If the same amount of memory can host either 100 PHP accounts or 33 Java accounts, then it make sense to price the Java accounts at 3 times the price of PHP accounts. But it cannot explain why there is less Java hosting than PHP hosting services.
The complexities of Java web applications doesn't seem to matter in this argument. As a user, I just don't see them.
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