Being a .NET enthusiast and having embraced the technology since it’s inception, when I decided to start the technical blog I of course assumed I’d use a blogging platform built on .NET.  Like all projects, I start out doing my homework researching what would be the “best” solution.  Interestingly enough, that is where .NET (as of this date) falls short.

This blog is developed using WordPress which relies solely on PHP and a MySQL backend.  I of course am still running it on a windows server powered by IIS, but it is using these technologies which have established their roots in the Linux arena.

After several long evening hours working in the sandbox environment with DotNetBlogginEngine, DasBlog and WordPress, I finally came to the same conclusion that many other’s in the blog sphere have come to…the “best” blogging solution is WordPress, pretty much hands down.  There are hundreds of articles stating this same conclusion across the net, however I just had to see for myself. 

DotNetBlogginEngine was very nice and wasy to setup, however it has very basic functionality.  DasBlog added a whole bunch of additional functionality, but it has been dinged for stability issues.  I even crashed it during my testing and had to reinstall it I had messed it up so bad, not good particularly if I had hundreds of posts logged.

The main take aways are that from a feature, stability and scalability standpoint, WordPress has set the bar in all of these arenas.

I had a heck of a time getting PHP to install properly on IIS 6 with Windows Server 2003.  I found this blog posting extremely useful as I too had made the same mistakes he initially made assuming getting the installer package was the right way to go.

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