Hi all, Just a reminder on what is suitable, infrastructure wise, for hosting of blogs which are aggregated on planetkde.org. Considering the number of blogs on planet, we do very well with keeping the number of failures as low as we do - so well done.
If you use one of the following hosted providers you can ignore the rest of this mail: - Blogspot (Google) - Wordpress.com (Not the software from wordpress.org) - Livejournal - blogs.kde.org In order for planet to pick up your posts within a reasonable time frame, Planet must poll your blog on a regular basis - currently once every 30 minutes. A listing of every failure or change in URL is sent to Sysadmin on the completion of each run. As such a broken blog can cause some problems. In regards to blog software, please avoid software like Ghost (resident Node.js software) unless it's being run by something such as Passenger which can autoscale and kill off defective processes. Wordpress and Drupal are both very decent and reliable solutions here (be careful when updating Wordpress to setup a .htaccess again on updates if you use Apache though!) For servers, it is important your system is adequately resourced (Raspberry PI class devices are not suitable), and setup to serve static resources without hitting your blog software itself. In regards to network - your blog should be hosted on a machine which is connected to a datacenter class network connection. All reputable VPS and Web Hosting providers will provide this. Consumer and Business internet lines are not suitable. Thanks, Ben
