So, Wordpress is admittedly becoming the gold standard of blogging – and we, like all other web hosts, happen to host a LOT of bloggers. The DrakNet blog is relatively new and we update as we do stuff, but our Network Status page is also run on Wordpress – but again, its only used in emergencies (which, thankfully, isn’t that much). So, that’s two blogs we’ve got.

I, personally, have two more – my kid convinced me to play City of Heroes, and then he convinced me we needed a supergroup and then, as Mom owned a web hosting company, convinced me we needed a Supergroup site for the supergroup. Blog #3.

Ok, this is starting to get confusing.

This past week, some friends convinced me that I need a personal blog, too, and so we now have Blog #4. I figured there had to be a better way to organize all this stuff, and lo and behold, there is – Blogging Clients. Which run off of xml-rpc which we, of course, blocked, as we are well known for being despicably paranoid.

Well, yesterday, you’ll be happy to know your web host owner grew so frustrated with trying to juggle so many blogs that she spent a vast amount of time writing and finding mod-security rulesets to lock down xml-rpc, and recompiled Apache on all of the servers so that you now can use all sorts of nifty blogging software to publish your blogs.

I personally settled on Scribefire, but there are many, many out there – here’s a great post with an overview of some of the blogging clients you have to choose from. All these clients have been tested and are fully supported (as of yesterday) on your DrakNet accounts, and we’ve locked down many of the risks in using some of them.

Happy Blogging!

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