Blog is the most popular website style on internet. No matter it's for personal hobby or business marketing purpose, blog is the best solution. Some day we found we have so many blogs on hand and no idea how to manage them efficiently, then we should look into some blog management softwares and find the right solution. In case you're looking for such solutions, we're going to introduce some of the best ones on internet.

Best Blog management softwares comparison

When we're talking about blog, 99% are wordpress related. So our article will mainly focus on wordpress platform, the available Blog management softwares are mostly WP based too. Such softwares are most ideally to be developed in desktop application. In this field, the windows live writer has been the most popular name for professionals. Not only because of it's free, but also for it's various support over the main blog systems such as wordpress, blogspot and we can manually configure to connect to other third party blog platforms. We can add as many blogs as we can.

The problem with live writer is it can't download blog themes from the configuration untill we switch back to default theme and disable all plugins. Especially when we have some customized functions enabled with our blog site, live writer can not help at all. However, it's already good enough for basic bloging purpose, we can wirte blog posts offline and publish any time.

If you think live writer is too basic for your blog requirements, then let's go ahead to check another solution — InfiniteWP.

InfiniteWP is developed by infinitewp.com, with this software we can manage wordpress updates, backup and restore in one click away. If we like to keep a backup and make everything up to date, infinitewp is probably the best free solution at the moment.

If you need further requirements such as code snippnets, bulk posting and scheduling backups etc, there're paid options.

Except for above freewares, there're more excellent paid softwares and they will provide much much more features. Let's check out the following brands in quick view.

ManageWP – A commercial wordpress plugin that let's managing multiple wordpress blogs under one dashboard. It's also designed to auto backup/monitor your wordpress sites in security tunnel. The best of the best is it's 100% mobile compatible! Means we don't have to use a PC and login to blog site, a mobile phone is enough.

ManageWP is available in free/paid solution. We can add up to 5 websites for free version with limited features. With enterprise edition we need to pay as much as $3.24/mo for professional services.

If you are running a pupolar wordpress site or going to have one and offer your clients personal blog options under a sub domain, you should check out "Pro Sites" solution.

The Pro Sites is developed by wpmudev team, it's simply designed the same way as wordpress.com where people can sign up blogs. If you have used wordpress.com you should have understood how powerful it is. Once Pro Sites is configured on our blog site, we can set to offer free or paid blog service. If we're going to make money with this business, Pro Site is absolutely the best solution so far.

Web hosting is a matured business, there're thousands of service providers to make the competition hard. For new players, they always have to use lots of methods to get customer orders, either ethical or unethical. Their primary chanllenge is to survival in the business. BUT, that makes users especially novice hard to determine a quality service provider. A decent service might be ignored because they did less marketing while a less quality service doing big efforts on it. This is what we're going to discuss in this topic.

How did you find your hosting provider?

The internet got great improvement these years and makes our lives more and more easy. No matter what we need, we can always find a perfect solution via few clicks away. Search engine plays the most important role in finding something we needed. When we not sure where to navigate, search engine(google) is always the primary place to check out. No matter if we trust the search results or not, the first page always get the most clicks. Means if the website is perfectly optimized and ranked very high on google, it will receive numorous visits from search engine redirecting.

Another way would be forums where almost every service providers advertised there. Some industry leading forums bring big business to hosting providers like Webhostingtalk. If we have some basic knowledge about hosting, we will look into such forums and ask for suggestions from experienced user or simply go with the recommended section directly since we trust the reputable forum brands.

So are they all right? Can we go safely with our choice? Well, just continue to read below.

How can we trust online hosting advertising?

Before we trust any info we should understand we're going to pay something. Because we're going to pay money, there'll be lots of providers trying to sell their products with every effort. So generally what we see on the web is not always what we needed at the very begining.

Search engine, every business knows it's importance and did everything they can to get higher ranking from search results. Forums, always spammed by tons of messages. Many service providers employ people to write fake reviews there and build a positive reputation on the site. Because of this, we can be misguided easily.

It's easy to write out 24×7 support and 99.999% uptime as well as 10 times more than what we actually need on their websites, however it always takes 100 times efforts to archive it. Not every company would like to invest that much. For many new setup brands, they just setup their business on several VPS instance or a single dedicated server. The support, billing and sales might be all handled by one or two people. What they really concerned is to sell their service to more people instead of fixing problems efficiently.

Nowadays, in order to gain business, people have tried almost all they can. Just yesterday, I received an email saying if I cancel my service with current company, they can offer me 6 months free VPS hosting with only 1 month payment! But when I check their website, it's only registered one month before! Can I leave a reputable company and put my business with such service? Absolutely no.

Conclusion

For people who need hosting service but not sure where to go, the most safe choice is to list out the old brands and search reviews of them. Generally speaking, if the positive rating is over 80% with that company, then it will do good with us, at least we know we're hosted with the direct equipment providers instead reseller or renter. No offense to new providers but it's really hard to evalue them, but I believe they will be reputable brands if they can put customer on top position.

From early days, there's less competition for online marketing so people can focus on actual service quality and gain business by offering leading techs and service. However, as more and more players join into the industry, money becomes the primary consideration. A quality service is hard to get customer if they don't implement some "unethical" methods like their competitors. As a result of that, people can't figure out which is good or bad, that's the source of so many complaints from users.

INTEL XEON E5 AND E7 SERVER PROCESSORS

If you're setting up a server, or choosing a cloud provider, you might want to know about the processors that go in to the machines. Which is better, and which should be used for which purpose? Have all the facts when you shop for a provider by reading on.

It’s worth mentioning before we start that the Xeon E7 and E5 processors have strong pedigrees – IBM, Dell and Amazon, who are among the largest cloud management companies, use Intel Xeon processors in their rented server space. So either one is going to be a strong option.

The E5. You might consider the E5 to be the ‘baby'of the line, especially where compared with the E7. It’s a newer processor design, which means higher optimization, and was released only in the second quarter of 2012. The processors are designed for affordable scalability, and as such are less expensive or complex to deploy than their bigger brother. It’s optimized for 2-socket performance, though it can happily take up to 4. This means that virtualization is a viable project for E5-based servers. Memory constraints are not gargantuan, but do come in at the Olympic level of 768GB (on 2 sockets) or 1.5TB on 4 sockets. They are reliable and efficient, with sizeable 20MB on-die caches. If your cloud operation is smaller scale or relies on flexible scalability, cloud providers with E5-based machines may offer all the operating headroom you require – even if you anticipate surges or shortfalls in customers say, throughout certain periods of the day.

The E7. This is the granddaddy of Intel Xeon processors. It is ‘top-of-the line’, according to Intel, and undoubtedly offers some of the best virtualization experiences possible today. Intel claims that it has ‘near native'Virtual Machine capabilities, which means that it is worth considering for intensive or interactivity-rich cloud applications.

Offered are 10-core processors – capable of processing up to 20 threads simultaneously – on between 2 and 256 sockets. That limits your maximum RAM to 4TB, and it’s hard to think of a use for any higher figures. For Mission-Critical or high data demand uses, the E7 is likely the processor that you will want to be using.

So which should you select? This depends on your use. Intel recommends the E5 for ‘standard infrastructure'projects. That covers, to be honest, the vast majority of cloud programs on the market today. The E7 is almost exclusively reserved for high-capacity computing and mission critical tasks (because of its increased power and reliability). Of course, if you really have the cash to splash, you can branch out to Intel’s super-premium Itanium 9000 sequence-based servers. It’s hard to think of many uses in which it would be more cost-effective to deploy these behemoths – they support up to an astonishing 1024TB (a petabyte) of RAM and reside almost exclusively on the UNIX platform (with support for Windows and Linux).

Hopefully this article has given a bit of insight in to your cloud provider’s hardware. If you have any comments or questions, please pop them in the thread below.