Comments on: WordPress Boosts Free Storage to 3GB. Leaves Blogger, TypePad in the Dust.

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Wordpress.com a 3GB — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:35:57 +0000

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By: grappler

grappler — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:20:10 +0000

yes this is good news, but it would be great if blogger increased its storage to remain competitive. 1GB is not that much if you want to display a whole bunch of images on your blog and the prices for extra storage are simply ridiculous! Google, please,please please fix this!

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By: Joker_H

Joker_H — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:28:55 +0000

good news, worpress no 1

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By: dwglea

dwglea — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:02:15 +0000

How much blogger storage size actually ?

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By: quirkyalone

quirkyalone — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:53:57 +0000

>> Automattic doesn’t allow users to accept ads or embed javascript widgets. Those drawbacks far outweigh the benefit of additional web space. <<

My thoughts exactly.

By: Siobhan Quinn

Siobhan Quinn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:21:55 +0000

Blogger offers unlimited free storage for text and video. Only pictures are subject to a 1 GB limit because it is powered by Picasa Web Albums.

By: bb

bb — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:45:26 +0000

“This is a big deal. Free storage is the new arms race in online services. ” – wrong. this is not a big deal at all. its just a marketing ploy. storage is cheap and if you do some clever back office linking you can save space when storing a popular file. Note that wordpress doesn’t allow you to upload zip and other “big” files so the PR could have easily been “wordpress boosts free storage to 30GB”.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:03:44 +0000

3Gb for a blog? Get outta here. I’ve been heavily blogging for a year and I’m not even vaguely nearing the same ballpark of requiring that much storage space.

It’s press release material, not grounded in the real world – for most bloggers, at least.

By: Dan Buell

Dan Buell — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:44:11 +0000

Vox has unlimited storage. You are restricted to uploading 2gb per month so in 6 weeks you can upload to Vox what you’re max is for Wordpress. Vox and Blogger are better at 3rd party apps/widgets than Wordpress. Wordpress has a neat product but it’s going to take a lot more than 3gb to make it stand out above the rest of the crowd…

By: Phil Thompson

Phil Thompson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:16:58 +0000

No podcasting? really?

I just tried to upload an mp3 on my free wordpress.com account and was directed to this message:
What filetypes can I upload?

Currently you can upload the following files to your blog: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, ppt, odt.

With the space upgrade you can also upload: mp3, avi, ogg, m4a, mp4, mpg, mov, wav, and wmv.

So this “upgrade” is useless to me. And it doesn’t offer “free” space for my intended use.

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:04:36 +0000

Rock on, ROCK ON!

Wordpress has been, currently is, and always will be the BEST! Matt has great direction for the product and the driving force behind it is SOLID.

By: Scottitude

Scottitude — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:10:27 +0000

With no disrespect to any of the “professional” bloggers, using a “free” blog service for more than a recipe or cat blog is a bad idea no matter how much storage you get.

Hosting your own server using Wordpress scripting is a different story but most self-hosted WP blogs I’ve seen are just as pathetically plain looking as the next.

No matter how many page-views or visitors a Blogger blog may get, the very name connotes amateur hobbyist and for the most part, the alleged aesthetics WP claims to provide are laughable.

A “free” blogger has no right or expectation to continued service and the “free” provider has no obligation to provide it.

Six Apart’s TypePad is not being “left in the dust” by anyone. Blogger? Who cares. *yawn*

By: rainbow

rainbow — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:57 +0000

That´s great. I used storage from other places, but it´s better to have it all unified.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:06:28 +0000

> WordPress (from Automattic) is boosting free storage for all the blogs it hosts from 50 MB to 3 GB. Founder Matt Mullenweg notes that is three times as much free space as Blogger currently offers.

If I do my maths correctly, it means that Blogger has been offering 1GB to its user. Compare this to the previous “50MB” from Wordpress. That makes a 20x difference. There’s no big deal offering “only” 3 times the amount of storage.
IMHO, storage is definitely not a competitive advantage for blogging platforms. It’s nice to have more than 50 megs, but more space doesn’t mean better service. I do think Wordpress.com kicks Blogger’s ass by just being a better blogging platform.

By: honestmall.com

honestmall.com — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:23:04 +0000

I wish we could see a stat on how much space people actually typically use.

Speaking of personal blogging, I’ve been lovin tumblr lately. We will definately stick with WP for our main blog though.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:57:57 +0000

This doesn’t affect me much personally, since I was only using 2% of my storage allowance before the increase. But it did prompt me to do some comparisons between wp.com and TypePad:
http://changing...orage-and-more/

By: Rob Poitras

Rob Poitras — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:36:45 +0000

Isabel seems to have the only critical comment on this post:
Matt says more storage allows people to blog rich media – but many of his customers already do, by embedding files from Flickr/YouTube/etc.

I agree that rich media like flash videos is better done by Youtube & Vimeo.

For images, many people still prefer to have it on their site instead of flickr (I mostly do).

For PDFs, the red headed stepchild of the web for documents. I can only think of uploading to the server for sharing to readers on a website.

I am 100% regarding:
Storage alone won’t make hosted WordPress a more attractive platform than Blogger and TypePad.

By: StorageMemo

StorageMemo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:20:17 +0000

Mostly PR, though pretty positive and encouraging. Great move.

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:28:09 +0000

I don’t think it will make anyone move from existing blog to wordpress blog except new blog.

By: 1 Million in 365 Day

1 Million in 365 Day — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:06:47 +0000

I am not using wordpress although I was considering it. I am sure that at least blogger is going to respond. Google responds don’t they?:)

By: thesavvyboomer

thesavvyboomer — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:29:42 +0000

If Typepad doesn’t follow within a few months, when my annual payment comes up, I’ll move to WordPress.

By: ajcooper

ajcooper — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:14:50 +0000

Interesting to note though, in the blog posting on the wordpress site announcing the upgrade you still can’t upload videos unless you pay for the extra storage.

“You still need a space upgrade to upload certain file types, like movies,…”

So my 3Gb storage can be used for anything except video and whatever “certain file types” are.