Weblogger Turns 11

Wow, I started Weblogger almost 11 years ago - the official birthday will be this next Friday, October 5th.

Our first server was actually a tired old Macintosh PowerMac 7200 with 256MB ram, running WebStar as an fcgi front end forUserland Frontier - there was no Manila back then so I hosted a few discussion groups using a lightweight forum built in to Frontier.

My little company (we really are a mom and pop) is actually undergoing a transition to offer WordPress and WPMU hosting. Actually every part of Weblogger is currently being reborn. I am re-doing all of our business internals, moving to a new hosted blogging platform, redoing our e-commerce from scratch - the whole enchilada.

I want to use this blog to highlight added value we are planning to bring to WordPress and particularly WPMU hosting. THe fact is that much of what WPMU does we did with Weblogger ISP tools years ago. I am used to dealing with this type of community softtware and may yet still have a trick or two up my sleeve when it comes to devising cool tools for community weblog hosting.

Getting out of Manila Jail

I’m working on a better mousetrap to recycle old Manila blogs in to spiffy new WordPress blogs. It’s all experimental at this point, but I have made great strides and will soon release a new service for Manila user who wish to convert to WordPress over at Weblogger very soooon…