Review of Simple PHP Blog
The specs that brought me to Simple PHP Blog were simple: The hosting package that I had then came with PHP and Perl, but database support was an add-on that would incur an extra charge.
Which gives you a straightforward choice: either sign up to separately hosted blogware, or see whether one can actually do without a database backend. Hosted blogware did not manage to convince me: what is on offer for free will not host my domain, and the subscription services are still somewhat overpriced for the basic functionality I am looking for. This narrowed the field quickly down to Simple PHP Blog (although I do seem to vaguely remember having come across one or two ‘PHP/Perl only’ alternatives).
Uploading the installation files was relatively straightforward, much to the credit of Alexander Palmo. Yes there are still some glitches in the programme (in particular when editing long static pages: only a limited set of changes will successfully upload in one go), but it is easy to use and offers convincing basic functionality. Thumbs up!
Update 26 May, 16 June 2006:
A number of persistent bugs in my Simple PHP installation have eventually prompted me to switch first to Blogger, then to the Wordpress.com hosted incarnation of Wordpress, and finally to the real thing. The problems I experienced with Simple PHP may well have been due to server side issues, rather than shortcomings in the software itself, but I got the impression that the current version is not overly robust. It did its job though, until I lost patience, and is likely the least costly way to a blog for anybody with a hosting setup similar to the one I had when I installed Simple PHP.
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