Blogger (service)

Blogger
Blogger logo
Type of site
Blog host
Available inSee below
Country of originUnited States of America
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerGoogle
Founder(s)
URLwww.blogger.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional, Free
LaunchedAugust 23, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-08-23)[1]
Current statusActive
Written inJava

Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which 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]

  1. ^ a b "The Story of Blogger". Blogger.com. October 8, 2003. Archived from the original on April 19, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
  2. ^ "Set up a custom domain - Blogger Help". support.google.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "Custom domains for your blog made easy". buzz.blogger.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  4. ^ "the limits on my Blogger account". Archived from the original on January 8, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  5. ^ "Important Note to FTP Users". Official Blogger Blog. Archived from the original on September 6, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2011.