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This is an important decision to make at the start of your blogging adventure - what script are you going to power your website with? I reccomend using Wordpress - It’s free, open source, amazingly fast, light and infintely extendable with a huge range of plugins. Wordpress powers this site, and every single other blog that I run or contribute too.

However, just saying Wordpress won’t help you at all. Let’s look at the other options.

MovableType
MovableType is a much heavier blog publishing tool written in a totally different language, which has it’s ups and downs. The primary advantage of MovableType is that you can host multiple blogs from the same installation, with no fuss and no mess. MT also publishes all posts as actual html files in the site directory, because this means that far less, if not no connections are made to the database when the page is called, making it very fast (supposedly).

The primary disadvantage of MovableType is that, although there is a free version, it’s closed source, and there are all sorts of licensing limits on that free version. Opensource is definitely the best.

There are also various other blogging platforms, like b2 and flatpress, but they aren’t really worth mentioning. Wordpress is the best.

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