For the last week or so, I have been playing around with blogging software alternatives. There are lots of choices out there. As you know from my last post, I use a web host called Lunarpages.

Lunarpages implements user controls using comethign called cPanel. Inside of cPanel, there is a cool application called Fantastico. Fantastico allows a user to install various applications on their server automatically. For blogging, there are several choices, including b2evolution.

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I researched them briefly and chose b2evolution for my blogs for several reasons.

• AntiSpam is built in
• Multiple blogs are supported
• One install handles multiple blogs at the same time on a different domain.
• You can chose to display several blogs on the same page. Photoblogs, moblogs, linkblogs ,blogrolls can be added in a snap.
• Great skins
• Multiple users and authors
• Integrated stats for each blog, including robots, RSS readers and browser hits broken down by referrers, searches, direct accesses, self-referred, etc. Also includes search keywords, user logins and more.
• Plugin framework totally rocks
• Much, much more

Bottom line, b2evolution is awesome!