How does .Blog differ from Movable Type?
While both Movable Type (MT) and .Blog run inside your web site, that’s where the similarity ends. MT is an scripted application that uses a scripting language called “Perl”. .Blog is a compiled ASP.NET application, which runs much faster. Every time you create a new post in MT, the application takes your post and creates a new static HTML page for your weblog’s index page and detail page. This also happens any time a reader makes a comment to your blog. While this does allow pages to be served up quickly to your readers, because they are static HTML pages, the process of creating these pages puts a much heavier load on your web server. As your readership increases, and the number of comments increases, so does the load on your web server. This server load has caused some web hosts to be reluctant about hosting web sites that use MT. .Blog, on the other hand, uses dynamic pages, that is, instead of making static HTML pages, .Blog retrieves posts and comments from a database to display
