Friday, April,22, 2010
Spam blogs deletion & self-hosted blogs
This post was inspired by 2 emails, one regarding the widespread
deletion of blogspot.com blogs and one regarding web hosting.
I myself have had 3 blogs related of which one probably was
because it was a song, music and video blog which had many
embedded Youtube videos. From a quick reading of Blogger Buzz
A quick note about music blog removals, it was probably because
of Blogger.com enforcing its Terms of Service as they relate to their
DMCA policy. However, if so, I should have received a notification.
Anybody who received such notifications should file a
DMCA counter-notification. As that was a minor blog and the
other 2 were just blogs for demonstration of some third party templates,
I did not bother to appeal or to try to reverse the deletion, which
probably will be a very difficult or tedious process.
However, I do have quite a number of more important blogs including
However, I do have quite a number of more important blogs including
Blogger Tips and Tricks which have a not insignificant number of
embedded Youtube videos and thus perhaps susceptible to sudden
deletion, thus thinking of self-hosted blogs.
Why self-hosted blogs? These I believe will not be susceptible to deletion
as my earlier assumption that blogs using custom domain would be
immune to such deletions have proven to be false hope. However,
it has come to my notice that some blogs using custom domain and
thus hosted by Blogger.com had also been deleted. Further,
Blogger.com will be stopping support for those using the old classic
Blogger template, publishing via FTP and hosting the blog
themselves by March 26 2010 (seeImportant Note to FTP Users).
This means that if you are very worried about your blog being
This means that if you are very worried about your blog being
suddenly deleted, you may have to consider self-hosted blogs
with other non-Blogger.com blogging platform likeWordpress.com,
etc. I myself may consider starting a self-hosted Wordpress.com
blog for testing, learning with the possibility of making it long term.
Thus my interest in the second email which was about web hosting
Thus my interest in the second email which was about web hosting
by doteasy.com which offered free web hosting as well as an
“unlimited” hosting plan at $9.95 per month with unlimited storage,
bandwidth and all the bells and whistles I possibly may need.
Further, with this coupon code 1003BPM, I can get a dotcom
domain for $7.95 (as at time of posting, but may change).
Now the first email from Chris of Blogger Victim who is campaigning
Now the first email from Chris of Blogger Victim who is campaigning
to try to persuade Blogger.com to modify their blog deletion policies
and methods. Do pop over to their blog if you want to find out more
about what is happening and if you want to assist them in their
campaign.
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