I'm getting fed up with Blogger's constant technical failures when it comes to FTP blogs, and their complete inaction on fixing the reoccurring problems.

FTP blogs are blogs that are hosted on any website other than Blogger's blogspot.com domain. I'm an FTP blogger because my blog is hosted on my own personal servers (at mikesussman.com). Blogger (owned by Google) is constantly having problems with FTP blogs and they're snail-like in responding to issues that affect thousands of their most dedicated bloggers. Last week I was unable to post to my blog for several days, and yesterday I was unable to upload any images, which is a common problem. And the part that bugs me most is hundreds of bloggers posting about these problems on the official blogger help group and being completely ignored by Blogger with no responses for days.

I've been loyal to Blogger since January 2001 but I'm tired of these reoccurring problems. I need to look into other alternatives. One is to move my blog to blogspot.com and either recreate my navigation to mimic the look of my website (it wil be difficult to get those pulldown menus to work on Google's servers) or to embed my blog within the rest of my website via a cheesy iframe (yuck). Another option is to completely ditch Blogger all together and install WordPress on my server. It would be a piece of cake to set up (auto-install) and they have a feature to import Blogger blogs. The downsides of that option would be learning a new system, re-customizing the look again, and being responsible for technical maintenance and upkeep - but maybe that last part is worth the extra effort.

Labels: blogging, rant