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I don't understand why companies take on hosting their blog and marketing page (usually the homepage) when it isn't their core competency and a distraction for
by callumjones 8y ago
I don't understand why companies take on hosting their blog and marketing page (usually the homepage) when it isn't their core competency and a distraction for the engineering team to maintain.
It looks like this is true for Docker which seems to be hosting it themselves instead of using Wordpress.com
» nslookup blog.docker.com
Server: 192.168.86.1
Address: 192.168.86.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
blog.docker.com canonical name = blog-1556129762.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
- nodesocket 8y agoOr use WpEngine or FlyWheel (https://getflywheel.com https://getflywheel.com).
- merb 8y agowell if a company which tries to sell solutions for high scale , high performance solutions and fast rollout and scaling. hosts their own blog (instead of using a hosted solution) AND can't scale it to their needs, than I would say their product failed. Either because they couldn't use it in this case (because too hard, etc, whatever) OR because it basically didn't worked.
- callumjones 8y agoThey are a container company, not a scale your blog + scale your database + scale your cache + scale your security company.
- merb 8y agoThan they should‘ve hosted it somwhere else instead of on their own tech
- callumjones 8y agoSee my first comment.
- jotm 8y agoWhen did that become so hard -_-
- callumjones 8y agoBecause a blog at scale is still a complicated piece of software? You need to implement caching, DoS protection, security - something a hosted blog vendor might have experience in.
- jotm 8y agoWhat do you mean still? It's about the easiest thing you can do... It was easy a decade ago and I reckon it's easier now. For Wordpress it can be literally a few clicks. I'm assuming they're not serving millions of users, that's when "scale" kicks in.