Wordpress Micro Sites Blogger "Advanced Blogging"

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Wordpress is an impressive software package that allows individuals with minimal understanding of web design to put together a web site rapidly, and for personal use it is unmatched. Nevertheless, for commercial use you will want to question whether it be a good idea to use software which is habitually hacked, delivers slow performance and involves continuous technical attention.

The VL Automotive Marketing Blogging System consist of about 20 files containing markup code whereas a Wordpress or Joomla site normally contain over 1,000 files of code and can exceed 6,000 files depending on the plug-ins installed. The amount of code that needs to be managed and updated etc is considerable adding cost and resources to maintain an effective blogging platform.

Since there are countless blogs using WordPress they can be a definite target for computer hackers. When a hacker can locate a vulnerability in a single system chances are this is present on many of the others. Additionally, as robots can determine whether or not a site is made by WordPress or not once a weakness has been discovered it is typically automatically exploited on every similar website the hackers find. Once a blog has been hacked it can be really difficult and expensive to fix.

Any site on-line is in danger of hackers to some degree however, having a VL Automotive Blog would mean that a hacker will need to target your blog specifically. The difference with a WordPress based blog is that the hacker can target a large number of blogs at once, without knowing or considering who they belong to.

Morgan has over 20 years of information technology experience with several certifications including Microsoft Security, Computer Forensics Cert, Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing, as well as several GIAC certs.

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