# RSS: self hosted vs feedburner?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rss-self-hosted-vs-feedburner/88700>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 13, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rss-self-hosted-vs-feedburner/88700 "2007-03-13T17:45:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonlog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jonlog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonlog)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rss-self-hosted-vs-feedburner/88700/1 "2007-03-13T17:45:56Z")

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I’ve been working on getting RSS feeds working for a small personal  
project of mine. In my research to see what/how other people were doing  
for RSS, I noticed that a vast majority of blogs seem to be using  
feedburner to host their feeds. Personally, I prefer to avoid becoming  
dependent on third party tools as much as possible.

So far, I’ve got the basic locally hosted feed working, supporting the  
Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since headers to save on bandwidth and cut  
down on unnecessary database hits. But am I missing some obvious  
advantage that using a third-party host provides, or am just asking for  
trouble by hosting this myself? Or is it simply that so many people use  
feedburner because that’s what everyone else uses?

The major pros and cons for self hosted vs feedburner implementations  
from those with experience would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![jonlog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jonlog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonlog)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rss-self-hosted-vs-feedburner/88700/2 "2007-03-13T18:01:01Z")

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On Mar 13, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Jon G. wrote:

> advantage that using a third-party host provides, or am just asking  
> for  
> trouble by hosting this myself? Or is it simply that so many people  
> use  
> feedburner because that’s what everyone else uses?
> 
> The major pros and cons for self hosted vs feedburner implementations  
> from those with experience would be appreciated.

I don’t know about anyone else but I mainly use feedburner for the  
stats they offer and the fact that the feed URL will remain the same  
(without me needing to add any rewrite rules) if I move things around  
on my site.

Of course, the fact that it reduces bandwidth usage quite a bit is  
nice too, but it’s a secondary concern for me.

James.

–  
James S.  
Blog: [Processing Greenbelt 2009 – James Stewart](http://jystewart.net/process/)