I already blogged about the original platform Orchard I used to host this blog. I needed a new blogging platform, and after all the complexity I wanted something simpler and easier to upgrade. Lately Github pages and Jekyll have drawn a lot of attention. Tipping point for me was reading what it took for Phil Haack to move his blog over. I tend to test new technology all the time, and decided to take a shot on Jekyll as a blogging platform. ...
When I originally started this blog I had two options: use some readymade blogging platform, or host one of the blogging platforms myself. I wanted a complete control of everything, and decided to build the blog to my own hosting. As .NET was (and partly still is) my thing, I wanted the platform to be .NET based. Sadly, none of the available platforms pleased me: dasBlog was aging and was not updated, DNN was too complex and written in Visual Basic. Luckily there was one new emerging platform called Orchard that was exactly what I wanted. ...