Peter Recommends LXXXVI
This is hysterical.
Movable Type - A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide, by Anil Dash
…[he goes on and on and on]…Question: How should you greet the onrush of visitors to your site when you get onto the homepage of Digg or Reddit? Answer: Not with a Database Connection Error. …[and on and on]…
Hah! How bout when you get an onrush of visitors from… your own back-end? And you get a Database Connection Error because saving a new entwy is just a widdew bit too hawd for poow widdwe MT? And then it takes down your whole server and everyone else on it? Is a Database Connection Error okay then?
six apart is getting desperate, and dirty
Hah! Dirty? Just kind of sad, really.
Tech Crunch - Six Apart Takes Aim At Wordpress Users; Wordpress Pissed
Who’s right? No idea. Dash notes that upgrading Wordpress is not exactly easy. Wordpress CEO Toni Schneider emailed me to say that some bloggers are actually moving from Moveable Type to Wordpress.
What? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally?
What’s clear is that neither platform is perfect, and requires far too much work for the bloggers.
Hah! Hah hah hah! Too much work for the…? Hahahahah!
Btw, that Anil Dash dude left a stupid silly useless comment here, which I followed up with — at length — which he never followed up on. Don’t leave the comment if you’re not going to follow through, hey?
And, if anyone finds this post who hadn’t been through the wars with me already, here’s a recap.
The other night, Peter asked if I knew why RC2 uses Blogspot. I didn’t know, but I couldn’t think of any reason why she wouldn’t. Unless you have a Peter that can devote as much time as he has to this blog, there is absolutely no way you can decently run either MT or Wordpress. But especially not MT.
Update (3.13):
Bwah hah hah!
Wired Blogs - Blog Fight! WordPress and Movable Type Square Off
Although, I’m not even mentioned. And, as everyone knows, I’m a powah playah in blogging circles. And anyways, I’ve been on the receiving end of a personal snark from Mr Dash! I’m totally relevant!
Curtsy: LGF.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Just so you know, I did get your earlier feedback and did share it with the team. I just figured, judging by your tone, that coming back into the conversation wasn’t going to add any value.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Your surmise is dead on: I use blogspot because I understand nothing about the internets.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Yeah well not acknowledging me at all didn’t add to your value either.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Having been this blog’s (somewhat unwilling) administrator since it’s inception back in November 2004, I’ll offer my 2 cents. In a nutshell:
Movable Type: once great, now only good UX, HORRIFIC scalability problems when dealing with low traffic but a lot of content. WordPress: crap UX, but incredibly scalable, maintainable, and extensible.
This blog, with 8300+ posts, 15k+ comments, brought MovableType to its knees. Scratch that, Movable Type brought any server hosting this blog to its knees. We’re not talking high-traffic here. A single search from a single user would CRAWL and cause an absurd spike in server CPU usage. Throw in a few spam bots doing a few more searches (nothing exactly dramatic, mind you) and each host we tried would crumble and knock this account offline.
This was the case regardless of dynamic or static publishing. As I said, Search was the largest culprit here. Optimizing the database, rebuilding things, fresh install, nothing helped. MT 4.0 and 4.1, same exact thing. Again: FRESH installs, no plugins, as vanilla as you can get.
So we were looking at spending 5 times as much a month moving to a VPS solution (which I still have my doubts would’ve changed anything) or finally giving WordPress a go.
We’ve been WordPress for over a month now and I so very much wish I’d switched things sooner. Same content, same cheap $10/month shared host, but zero issues.