dasBlog vs. Blogger vs. Geeklog vs. Loudblog

General Features dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
N/A
1.8.2
0.6
Release Date
2007-08-14 (18 years ago)
N/A
30 Dez 2012
2006-12-09 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Google Inc.
Geeklog Team
Gerrit van Aaken
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
BSD License
N/A
GNU version 2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
none
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
No
Optional
No
Hosting Features dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
N/A
php
PHP
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
N/A
any
all
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
N/A
any
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
N/A
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Text Files
Yes
N/A
No
No
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
Yes
No
Other
Structured XML data store
N/A
no
Anti-Spam dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Akismet Support
Yes
N/A
No
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
Definable Questions
User Access Features dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Unknown
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
N/A
Support dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
None
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Categorization
Multiple
None
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Protected Posts
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Blogger data API
none
Post Editing dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Undo
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
No
Comment Features dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
No
No
Gravatars
Yes
No
Yes
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
None
Extended Features dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Custom Pages
Patch
No
Yes
No
Google Sitemap
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Workflow dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Content Import
BlogML pending
none
none
Content Export
BlogML pending
HTML via FTP/SFTP
via RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Administration dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog Blogger Geeklog Loudblog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
Yes
YouTube Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
No
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