I’m running Tapanila.net on Windows Azure Websites and using Wordpress. The biggest reason why I chose Wordpress and why I’m still using it is the amount of themes, plugins and services available for it. I use a lot of different services on my blog and here’s a list of them:
- CloudFlare - DNS
- Disqus - Commenting
- Cloudinary - All pictures on my blog are hosted on cloudinary. I upload full sized pictures into their service and it resize them to perfectly fit my blog layout
- Gist - Sharing my source code samples
- Starbox - Author box in bottom of my posts
- Sendgrid - Takes care of all the emails my blog sends
- WP SuperCache - Caching my Wordpress
If you have any questions regarding any of the services that I use or why did I choose these just ask on comments.