When I first started contemplating Guruphobia I pondered platforms.
I heard good things about Expression Engine (EE).
On paper EE looks fantastic, and is full of features. New to blogging, I let the feature list seduce me and I bit hard. I even plunked down for a Commercial license, because……….you never know.
Installation was straightforward, but I noticed something straight away. The load times sucked. Seven seconds to load a nearly empty home page? I asked around and the common answer I got was: “your webhost is slow”. I didn’t buy it, as I have other accounts with my webhost running scripts, and none slog down like this.
After several months of inactivity, I finally got back around to this blog…………..and the load times got even slower. So, in a decisive moment, I deleted Expression Engine and moved to Wordpress.
Besides being free of charge, Wordpress is one of the most widely used Blog Platforms around. What does this mean? Lots of templates to use, lots of plugins, and lots of community support.
Best of all? Load time of about 1.6 seconds. (Same exact webhost, by the way).