In its present publishing model, the Hardpan Media web log comprises perhaps more of a work of a manner of an academic thesis, more than representing any manner of an active commercial marketing presence, online. The author of this web log may begin to integrate more of some of a manner of advertising content — ideally, to present the commercial integration for this web log, in a tasteful and well-structured regards — as the web log develops. It is not the author’s intention to begin to develop content as if only for a purpose of sales turnover, however.
In this web log’s present WordPress hosting arrangement — as Hardpan Media version 1.0 being a hosted WordPress web log developed on the baseline WordPress commercial ‘blog hosting services — simply, it would be difficult to develop any manner of a singular commercial media integration for this web log, in its present hosting arrangement. The baseline WordPress.com web log hosting account — the author thinks, reasonably so — simply, it does not permit for an extension of the baseline WordPress instance with any single WordPress plugins, such that are available for applications in self-hosted WordPress web logs.
In the baseline edition of WordPress, a web log designer is not so permitted to customize the Cascading Stylesheets or Client-Side Scripting content of the theme of the web log, in — no doubt, such a service restriction preventing much of a commercial application for the baseline web log, it preventing any sort of a commercial adaptation in so much as the HTML of a web log’s theme. Juxtaposed to a baseline application of the Blogger blog hosting framework, the baseline hosted WordPress.com ‘blog presents a fairly more “Bare Bones” kind of content management service. The hosted WordPress blog may serve as something of a simple, non-commercial content management service, such that may be extended with either a Premium WordPress.com service upgrade or an upgrade to WordPress for Business.
As a manner of “Free Beer” or “Trial Offer” service — so to speak — the baseline hosted WordPress.com web log provides a low cost of entry, for a simple web log kind of content management service.
Structurally, a baseline hosted WordPress.com web log can be managed with a web-based interface — as with either of the WordPress.com “My Site” web interface or the classic “WP Admin” web interface — but the features presented via each respective web interface will be notably limited, as with regards to site customization for the baseline service level of web log hosting at WordPress.com. The aspiring content management service executive may endeavor to upgrade to a Premium service level, and thus be able to customize the HTML and Cascading Stylesheets of the web log’s presentation. At the WordPress for Business level of WordPress.com web log hosting services, alternately, the web log would be extensible with any number of specialized, commercially-oriented WordPress plugins.
As a third alternative — albeit, as in a manner that would depart from WordPress.com commercial support services — the content management executive may endeavor to put on a developers hat and host the WordPress web log software on an “Own Server.” In such a hosting arrangement, the self-hosted WordPress instance would be completely extensible, customizable down to the lowest detail accessible of the web hosting service. Ostensibly, a content management executive may so much as endeavor to create a co-located server, thus managing so much as the “Bare metal” computing hardware itself, thus creating a comprehensively customized WordPress hosting arrangement.
In a self-hosted instance of the WordPress web log software, not only would any number of commercially-oriented WordPress plugins become . immediately available to the web log content developer. The self-hosted arrangement would also permit for application of more singularly content-oriented plugins — such as as the Wiki plugin from wpmudev — as well as allowing for integration of social web log services, such as with BuddyPress. The level of extensibility available to the self-hosted WordPress instance — in a realistic manner — it would be limited only by the bounds of all possible applications, in a context of: All of computing.
The flexibility of the self-hosted WordPress instance, of course, it arrives with a manner of a greater responsibility for service development and service maintenance. Juxtaposed to an application of a third-party hosted WordPress.com web log, the developer of a self-hosted WordPress web log must provide all manners of systems administration and network administration services, such as would be required as in order to develop the respective self-hosted host.
In the era of OpenStack, when cloud service providers such as Digital Ocean, IBM Bluemix, and Amazon Web Services are all available to the ostensible “Web hacker,” available furthermore as for purposes of application development in scalable and high-availability cloud-oriented service architectures — furthermore, architectures supported by, in each, the individual cloud service provider, however each cloud service provider might have extended originally of OpenStack virtualization services, or otherwise — it could be quite easy for a web content developer to begin running a self-hosted WordPress web log.
Of course, not to have things seem “Too easy,” the matter may seem to be complicated more, if one chooses to run FreeBSD, juxtaposed to Linux, on the respective web hosting provider — assuming an availability of a FreeBSD operating system, of the respective web hosting provider. Considering the fairly straightforward architecture of the FreeBSD operating system, the complications of such a choice might seem to be largely social, if in any ways actually tangible as “Complications.“
With regards to commercialization on the Web’s New Media: The author of this web log wishes to view a concept of Web Commercialization, broadly, as it being not per se any manner of an “Evil” influence, online — therefore, not either a “Necessary Evil,” in any single idiomatic concept — rather, that a manner of commercialization may be a natural part of the contemporary Web ecosystem. In a duration proceeding from the first commercial adaptation of HTTP and continuing for an indefinite duration thence — furthermore as the Web representing a manner of a development of computing applications, thus evolving how much closely in parallel to developments of personal computing hardware, in a duration up to and including the present epoch of light-duty mobile computing applications — commercial agencies have so-far endeavored to develop an effective manner of commercial integration for Web media. Not as like the no-holds-barred “IPO or bust” culture of the original “Dot com bubble”, the contemporary web has evolved much more of a support-oriented style, in web media.
Certainly, the rustic “DIY-er” may endeavor to find any manner of a great adventure in departing from the main commercial avenues in web content development. It may not seem advisable to every manner of a social perspective, but if it is a learning experience, then it may be well enough so?
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