Blogger (service)
Type of site | Blog host |
|---|---|
| Available in | See below |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | |
| Founder(s) |
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| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, Free |
| Launched | August 23, 1999[1] |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | Java |
Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 that enables its users to write blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be accessed from a user-owned custom domain (such as www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers.[1][2][3] A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account.[4]
Blogger enabled users to publish blogs and websites to their own web hosting server via FTP until May 1, 2010. All such blogs and websites had to be redirected to a blogspot.com subdomain or point their own domain to Google's servers via DNS.[5]
- ^ a b "The Story of Blogger". Blogger.com. October 8, 2003. Archived from the original on April 19, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
- ^ "Set up a custom domain - Blogger Help". support.google.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
- ^ "Custom domains for your blog made easy". buzz.blogger.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ "the limits on my Blogger account". Archived from the original on January 8, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
- ^ "Important Note to FTP Users". Official Blogger Blog. Archived from the original on September 6, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2011.