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1) Google: 'ssh hosting'
2) Follow one of the top links: http://b2evolution.net/web-hosting/ssh-hosting-secure-shell-access.php
3) Buy one month plan.
4) Putty on windows setup a 'dynamic' forwarding port, ssh on *NIX: ssh -D 1080 myhost.com
5) Browse freely.

That's it. You can run anything that supports a SOCKS proxy through it. No looking for proxy lists or any such nonsense.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned b2evolution after so many posts. I use this platform for quite some time and I've always been happy with it.

I'm ok with Wordpress too, but I still prefer b2evo for its flexibility (not that WP is not flexible). The decision to choose b2evo over something else was made a long time ago, so I don't recall all the factors that influenced me. Since then b2evo has improved significantly.

Any slashdotter who is thinking about setting up a blog should also consider b2evolution.

RFC 1087 Ethics and the Internet January 1989

At great human and economic cost, resources drawn from the U.S.
Government, industry and the academic community have been assembled
into a collection of interconnected networks called the Internet.
Begun as a vehicle for experimental network research in the mid-
1970's, the Internet has become an important national infrastructure
supporting an increasingly widespread, multi-disciplinary community
of researchers ranging, inter alia, from computer scientists and
electrical engineers to mathematicians, physicists, medical
researchers, chemists, astronomers and space scientists.

As is true of other common infrastructures (e.g., roads, water
reservoirs and delivery systems, and the power generation and
distribution network), there is widespread dependence on the Internet
by its users for the support of day-to-day research activities.

The reliable operation of the Internet and the responsible use of its
resources is of common interest and concern for its users, operators
and sponsors. Recent events involving the hosts on the Internet and
in similar network infrastructures underscore the need to reiterate
the professional responsibility every Internet user bears to
colleagues and to the sponsors of the system. Many of the Internet
resources are provided by the U.S. Government. Abuse of the system
thus becomes a Federal matter above and beyond simple professional
ethics.

IAB Statement of Policy

The Internet is a national facility whose utility is largely a
consequence of its wide availability and accessibility.
Irresponsible use of this critical resource poses an enormous threat
to its continued availability to the technical community.

The U.S. Government sponsors of this system have a fiduciary
responsibility to the public to allocate government resources wisely
and effectively. Justification for the support of this system
suffers when highly disruptive abuses occur. Access to and use of
the Internet is a privilege and should be treated as such by all
users of this system.

The IAB strongly endorses the view of the Division Advisory Panel of
the National Science Foundation Division of Network, Communications
Research and Infrastructure which, in paraphrase, characterized as
unethical and unacceptable any activity which purposely:

(a) seeks to gain unauthorized access to the resources of the
Internet,

(b) disrupts the intended use of the Internet,

(c) wastes resources (people, capacity, computer) through such
actions,

I just installed b2evolution on my little webserver - incredibly easy install, I was up in no more than 2 minutes from apt-get. Themes and all, it's really nice.

And I can do whatever the &$#@ I want with it, and it was free!

Anyone can do this if they have broadband from their own line. Almost reminds me of the old BBS days... >sigh =)

I don't like WordPress like some others here do. I think there's to much of an unjustified hype about it. I consider both b2evolution and Pivot superiour in terms of quality, features and usability. Pivot is database free which can be a big performance plus if you're only powering a single blog. I'd actually suggest you check out Pivot. It's backend is approachable and extremly easy to use and the available templates are a wonderfull groundwork to get rolling with your own style.

Of course all these are GPLd blogtools. If you insist on spending money for a commercial blogtool licence I'd strongly recommend Expression Engine over Movable Type or others.

A third alternative are payed blog services. You might want to check out Squarespace which looks like solid functionality crossed with a designers wet dream.

I find it interesting that the article selects WordPress for review but laments its inability to do multiple blogs. On the other hand, another popular derivative b2evolution does do multiple blogs and is very similar to WordPress. It was one of the applications that the Linux.Plupii virus targets, but there was a patch available two months before the virus was found.

It's flexible, and I like it. You might too.

The other fork from b2/cafelog, b2evolution has had this ability for a long time. They also have a simple migration utility for people who want to migrate from WordPress.

See you over in b2evo land!

Michael Badnarik Blog, he is the Libertarian Party presidential candidate. He uses b2evolution, a free GPLed blogging system.

The Badnarik campaign has also been reaching out to voters through Friendster.

The advantage with projects like b2evolution, WordPress and probably a few more (but I haven't checked them out enough) is that there are many different contributors. This makes it very unlikely that all of them would ever agree to release a version x.0 under a new license. Thus it is vitually guaranteed that these projects will stay FREE as in GPL forever! :)

At the beginning there was a "classy blogtool" called b2.

When Michel V., the original author of b2, stopped development of his tool, two forks emerged simultaneously: b2evolution and WordPress.

This was in early 2003. For some reason, Michel V. later chose to endorse the WordPress fork as an "official" successor to his work.

Anyway, both forks have developped at approximately the same pace but with slighlty different orientations. b2evolution is merely moving towards a larger scale multilingual multiuser multiblog system, maybe even a full featured CMS, while WordPress is merely concentrating on adding sweetness to basic blogging, like image thumbnail generation, etc.

Having looked at the sourcecode, WordPress is closer to the original b2, while b2evolution has been significantly rewritten in a more object oriented way (as far as PHP 4 can be considered OO).

Check out b2evolution.

b2evolution has pretty much all of the features supported by MT's paid-package, unlike WP. Trackbacks/pingbacks, multiple blogs, multiple languages, extended categories, clean permalinks, you name it - the list of features seems to never end. Version 0.9 was just released today (Check the snazzy press release.) A MT migration script should be out within the next two weeks, and we're hoping to scoop up some of the disenfranchised MT bloggers. The dev team for b2evolution, in my experience, tends to be extremely responsive to users' needs and feedback. The support is extremely good, and the documentation is growing rapidly. Overall, a very flexible, powerful, and user-friendly system. (It's also one of the only open-source CMS systems that I've seen that will run on an IIS platform!) Best of all, it's free, and looks like it's going to stay that way for a long time.

b2evolution has pretty much all of the features supported by MT's paid-package, unlike WP. Trackbacks/pingbacks, multiple blogs, multiple languages, extended categories, clean permalinks, you name it - the list of features seems to never end. Version 0.9 was just released today (Check the snazzy press release.) A MT migration script should be out within the next two weeks, and we're hoping to scoop up some of the disenfranchised MT bloggers. The dev team for b2evolution, in my experience, tends to be extremely responsive to users' needs and feedback. The support is extremely good, and the documentation is growing rapidly. Overall, a very flexible, powerful, and user-friendly system. (It's also one of the only open-source CMS systems that I've seen that will run on an IIS platform!) Best of all, it's free, and looks like it's going to stay that way for a long time.

b2evolution has pretty much all of the features supported by MT's paid-package, unlike WP. Trackbacks/pingbacks, multiple blogs, multiple languages, extended categories, clean permalinks, you name it - the list of features seems to never end. Version 0.9 was just released today (Check the snazzy press release.) A MT migration script should be out within the next two weeks, and we're hoping to scoop up some of the disenfranchised MT bloggers. The dev team for b2evolution, in my experience, tends to be extremely responsive to users' needs and feedback. The support is extremely good, and the documentation is growing rapidly. Overall, a very flexible, powerful, and user-friendly system. (It's also one of the only open-source CMS systems that I've seen that will run on an IIS platform!) Best of all, it's free, and looks like it's going to stay that way for a long time.

b2evolution has pretty much all of the features supported by MT's paid-package, unlike WP. Trackbacks/pingbacks, multiple blogs, multiple languages, extended categories, clean permalinks, you name it - the list of features seems to never end. Version 0.9 was just released today (Check the snazzy press release.) A MT migration script should be out within the next two weeks, and we're hoping to scoop up some of the disenfranchised MT bloggers. The dev team for b2evolution, in my experience, tends to be extremely responsive to users' needs and feedback. The support is extremely good, and the documentation is growing rapidly. Overall, a very flexible, powerful, and user-friendly system. (It's also one of the only open-source CMS systems that I've seen that will run on an IIS platform!) Best of all, it's free, and looks like it's going to stay that way for a long time.

b2evo This is what I would recommend people check out first.
BBlog (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater & MySQL version 3.23 or greater)
Bit 5 Blog
blosxom (only need ability to run CGI scripts)
drupal.org (mySQL or similar required)
LiveJournal.org
MyPHPblog/Simplog (seems to require MySQL would have to download to be sure.)
Nucleus (requires PHP version 4.0.6 or higher and access to a MySQL database version 3.23.38 or higher)
Pivot (only php required)
pLog (requires PHP 4.1.x or higher and MySQL 3.1.x or higher)
Scoop (requires Apache with mod_perl and mySQL)
TikiWiki (requires PHP 4.1+ and MySQL. Very powerful software.)
WordPress (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater and MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater.)