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What are the best options to host an Engineering Blog?

• posted by: user2490003 on 2015-09-09
• tagged: tech-company, website
• score: 1

Many large companies and startups run Engineering blogs.

Example -

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com http://engineering.twitter.com/ http://www.facebook.com/Engineering http://eng.yammer.com/blog/

I’m trying to look at viable options to start a similar Engineering blog for a small startup organization. We don’t want to get involved in hosting and would prefer an out-of-the-box implementation that allows good support for markup and formatting.

So far I have only come across Wordpress.

1. Are there other good options to consider? Personal recommendations?
2. If we were to go with Wordpress, is there a good Wordpress hosting service for a reasonable price?

Thanks!

Answer 7307

• posted by: Robert Möstl on 2015-09-10
• score: 1

You could also try Ghost which gets increasingly popular in the realm of software development blogs. E.g. Jeff Atwood (co-founder of StackOverflow / StackExchange) is using it for http://blog.codinghorror.com/. Ghost is open-source, can either be hosted or self-hosted and also has some team collaboration features.

Answer 7308

• posted by: Jeff O’Neill on 2015-09-10
• score: 1

I recently started using Google's blogger for exactly this. Here are the pros:

• Completely free, including hosting
• Mature with lots of features and widgets
• You can customize the template to look exactly like your site. Compare my site and my blog. However, it took about a day of work to customize the template to look like my site and I still need to fix the mobile version.

The only thing I am fearful of is that Google might start putting advertisements on it once I exceed a certain level of traffic.

Answer 7311

• posted by: Delmania on 2015-09-10
• score: 1

I can vouch for Digital Ocean, as I use them for my site, delmania.net. They have a image configured for Wordpress. As for an actual blogging engine, Ghost is good, Blogger is good, and GitHub pages is good, but I earnestly recommend Wordpress for people just starting out. It has the lowest barrier of entry, and that will get you focused on making high quality content as opposed to have to configure the engine itself.

Answer 7310

• posted by: katch on 2015-09-10
• score: 0

You can use github pages. Fast static pages, and easy to setup and run. Completely free hosting by github. You can get google analytics by integrating them into your pages or have comments integrated from companies like discuss. For more info: https://pages.github.com/

Answer 7305

• posted by: user5829 on 2015-09-10
• score: -2

If you happen to be in electronics industry, you can check out www.valpont.com. Valpont.com is to serve as a community and knowledge base for electronics professionals and businesses. We just launched it and yes I work here. You can register as a business and you can post news/white-papers/IPs/files/etc. You can also post events, polls, jobs, and items for sale (we have e-commerce feature). You can use “User Page” to serve as your “website”. It supports many formatting but is not as flexibile as your own site to be clear. With your own site, you have to worry about how to get it known. So the main benefit of using valpont.com is to make your company more visible.
Feel free to give it a try and let us know how it works. The good side of being a startup is we take your feedback seriously.

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