consultant

OpenWeblog.com status: Login Fixed

Hrm... If I'm going to continue posting these OW-related pieces, I should really start up the News blog.

In any case, I just confirmed that Login is working again. Let me know ASAP if you find something else broken.

And, as I said, in response to [personal profile] tastygreenmint's comment on the last status update: I've changed all accounts so that they are validated again.

I'm really kind of surprised to have anyone outside my friends and family asking me about the OpenWeblog site. It would be really helpful if you could let me know what you use OW for that LJ doesn't provide.
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Posted on May. 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell Someone

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[personal profile] snow

hey, did you get my last email? in case you didn't i'll just repeat myself! i said that i don't think many of my friends would be willing to use ow but the ones that would use it would be dedicated to it and i at least could donate you a certain amount of money monthly and definitely more than just $5 since i know maintaining a server has to cost a lot of money due to bandwidth and stuff! :-) do you think there's any future of things like more userpics being available or paid accounts being sold? if it would cost more money for you to maintain the server if there were more userpics available, how much do you think it WOULD cost? i could help you out with paying for it!
Posted on Aug. 10th, 2009 07:21 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply
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[personal profile] hexmode

I thought I had already given you more user pics. Could you verify that you only have 10?
Posted on Aug. 11th, 2009 12:44 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

(Anonymous)

how does one go about getting their own server? and would you say that the code is hard/difficult to install? how did you get your own domain?
Posted on Aug. 22nd, 2009 05:22 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply
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[personal profile] hexmode

HOWTO

Wow.... How much time do you have?

You can purchase your own domain for $10/year at places like GoDaddy.com.

The code isn't that hard to install if you have mod_perl experience. If all you want to do is host a weblog, though, setting up WordPress is about 10,000 time simpler.

I lease a fairly large server from M5Hosting that I have sliced up into different virtual machines. I would not recommend attempting that if you are even asking the question. If you can afford your own dedicated server (~$75/mo) then you can call up Mike at M5Hosting and he'll help you set up a smaller server. You must be familiar with Linux.

You can also get smaller, less powerful virtual servers from places like SliceHost ($20/mo). I would not plan on running an installation of LiveJournal on a virtual server of that size, though.
Posted on Aug. 22nd, 2009 06:09 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply