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And Back Again.

Just a test first blog post. Spent the afternoon setting up my blog and migrating the data from an archive I had stashed away. Managed to get posts going all the way back to 2007. Woohoo I have a blog again! And wow, things haven’t changed much at all. Still reverse proxying nginx to apache […]

September 27, 2024 | Blogging | No comments

Blogger to customers: Your blog will now run on multiple domains so we can censor it

The worlds largest blog host by a wide margin, Blogger (or Blogspot.com) has now actively started redirecting visitors to top level country domains (ccTLD’s) based on which country they are in. I run a real-time analytics service and we have roughly 700,000 Blogspot customers. At 1AM on January 30th (UTC time) we saw a huge […]

February 2, 2012 | Blogging, Rants, SEO | 3 comments

You know you're blog has arrived when…

…the first flame-war in your comments erupts. Cool it guys.

July 30, 2011 | Blogging, Wordpress | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.