Everyone else is saying it, so I'm sure you've heard already. Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, have announced a new service called TypePad that will be released later this year.
The best way to describe the product they intend to offer is this: it will harness the power of Movable Type into a system as [...]
Posts on ‘April 23rd, 2003’
TypePad, LiveJournal, and my Failure
speed concerns: database vs. filesystem
While writing Inklog, I've been debating with myself regarding my use of the filesystem as a datastore. While the filesystem certainly makes creating, updating, visualizing, backing up, and restoring data much easier than it would be in a database, it adds many hardships. First of all, the convenience of SQL is thrown out the window. [...]