Blogger (service)

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Blogger

Type of site	Blog host
Available in	See below
Country of origin	United States of America
Area served	Worldwide
Owner	Google
Founder(s)	Evan Williams Meg Hourihan
URL	www.blogger.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional, Free
Launched	August 23, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-08-23)[1]
Current status	Active
Written in	Java

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]