Hosting: April 2007 Archives

There will be a general election in Ireland in the next few weeks and we'll all have to listen to the various politicians going on about how much they'll do for the Irish economy. But do the politicians actually use Irish companies to provide them with services such as hosting and domain registration? There's a thread over on boards.ie which is quite revealing. It seems that Sinn Fein are the biggest offenders of the lot! They seem to be 100% hosted in the US (courtesy of Pair). So much for republicans? This lack of support for Irish business was also mentioned here as well, and ties in with the GAA's total lack of support for Irish jobs.

As I mentioned some time ago, the Wordpress site does not list ANY non-US hosting companies. They're now running an adwords campaign with the text "Top 5 Wordpress Web hosts, Chosen by the users & developers of the WordPress blogging software" Lovely! They won't list non-US hosts and they expect the public to swallow their bull about the listed providers having been "chosen" So, my question is... Does anyone know of an alternate blogging software / platform that isn't so US-centric?