After launching their switch to Posterous campaign, it looks like Posterous has encountered its first “speed bump” on the path towards success which unfortunately disabled the site for a brief amount of time. Today, from 1:41pm until shortly before 3p pacific time, we had an unscheduled and unplanned outage due to a denial of service (DoS) attack on our core load-balancing servers. That basically means that we were flooded with malicious amounts traffic our upstream providers were unable to handle, and we couldn’t respond to the requests of real users. During this time, all[....]
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Whether you love them or hate them, it looks as if Posterous has angered yet another company, albeit for the right reasons this time. In their attempt to liberate the twitterverse from having their images permanently hosted upon TwitPic which they announced earlier today. A picture is worth 1,000 words. Or 3 tweets, 2 blog posts and 4 status updates. Which is why it’s important to keep your photos in a place that truly belongs to you. We’ve had numerous users ask us to help them find a new home for their photos, and today we are announcing new tools to help move your[....]
Posterous, the nimble blogging service that is similar (albeit more advanced) than Tumblr, has decided to help liberate users from dying platforms by offering to import their sites for free. A lot of you have asked for help moving your old blog, photos or videos to Posterous. You grouched about dying platforms that haven’t added new features in ages, sites that have made it too complex to perform the most basic tasks and places that smother your content in ads. We hear you. Every day for the next 15 days, we’ll add a new platform from which you can import your old content[....]
Perhaps slander is a harsh word (malign and misinform might be better candidates), but it looks like Posterous campaign to demonize everyone continues with its latest target being Tumblr. But blogging on Tumblr is sort of like being in high school. But you know deep-down that you can’t be in high school forever. Eventually, you have to move on. It’s the same with blogging. After you get your feet wet, you need comments and the ability to moderate them.* You need to add different media types to each post. Your sharing needs are more complex, and your site needs to[....]
With nefarious spam on the rise throughout the blogosphere (both human and inhuman), it looks like Posterous has finally given users the ability to moderate comments upon their blogs. If you want to prevent comments from appearing on your site without your approval on your Posterous blog — now you can. You’ll get an email whenever a comment gets posted to your blog, and it’ll be up to you whether that comment gets approved or rejected. You can turn this setting on for each of your sites individually. You can either approve or reject the comment directly on the post, or go[....]
Posterous (considered by some to be Tumblr’s biggest rival) is finally allowing users to create pages to accompany their blogs. Unlike Tumblr however, Posterous is enabling fans of the service to add a few extra features to pages that may appeal to keep-it-simple bloggers, not to mention spammers as well. We decided to use the same great editor that you are already using for posts. This means you can edit rich text, upload any media, and add and edit photo galleries. All of the cool features that we’ve created for posts—like link auto-expansion and syntax highlighting—come[....]
When you’re an up-and-coming free blog service like Posterous, with some big name users on your books, then you need to ensure your web hosting is up to scratch. To that end, Posterous has chosen The Rackspace Cloud to handle its hosting requirements. The move means that the multimedia files users send to the Posterous service, for publication and dissemination via a number of other online services, will be stored on Rackspace’s Cloud Files. Also being handled is company email and a range of application servers. Posterous co-founder Sachin Agrawal said that the new deal means[....]