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you’ve decided to blog, but Like free blog hosting, there
aren’t sure whether you should are many possibilities for
host the blog yourself or sign up software that makes hosting your
for a free service like own blog easy. Most of them are
blogger.com. It’s a dilemma that free to use. These include:
many bloggers face. There are WordPress(the most popular
pros and cons to both, which software) Apache Roller Blosxom
makes the decision difficult for Geeklog Textpattern LifeType
many. Neither is perfect, and There is also blog software
neither is for everyone. which you can purchase for use on
Fortunately, you should be able your site. These include:
to make the best decision for you Community Server Movable Type
if you are armed with adequate Radio UserLand
knowledge of both. In this One negative about using
newsletter, we’ll go over software and hosting your own
services like blogger.com and blog is that the process can
others, plus software that allows often times be complicated. You
you to host your own blog. We’ll have to download the software and
also go over the pros and cons of install it to your server, which
each. After reading this, you doesn’t always go easily. It’s
will know which is best for you. particularly hard for those who
Who offers free blog hosting?
don’t have a lot of experience
Many sites offer free blog installing things on servers.
hosting. Among them are Forumer, Why should I remotely host my
Blogger, BlogEasy, Aeonity, blog at a place like Blogger?
BlogThing and Blogates. A quick Places like Blogger allow you
search for “free blog” on Google to host your blog there. It’s a
reveals many possibilities.
good option for many people.
The Pros
•You don’t have as many
•It’s easy to set up and options to customize your
maintain a blog. You don’t have blog.
to go through the trouble of
Remotely hosted blogs are
installing software and admittedly somewhat limited in
configuring it to work on your terms of what you can actually do
server. All you have to do is on them. You have to stick with
sign up for an account and start what is provided to you in terms
posting.
of look and features.
•It’s friendly for beginning
•The URL you get is always
bloggers. Sites that host blogs yourname.BLOGSITE.com. You don’t
offer good tutorials on how to get to have a custom domain name
make your blog postings, so that like YOURNAME.com. This can
even someone who is completely possibly hurt traffic to your
new to the concept of blogging blog.
can do it easily.
•Blogs hosted on free blog
•Most blog hosting sites are sites don’t look as professional
completely free to use. There is as self hosted blogs.
no need to pay for things like a
Why should I self-host my
domain name and hosting.
blog?
•Monetizing your blog is easy.
The Pros
Rather than having to manually
•You have more options and
put HTML/Javascript codes on your more flexibility. You are able to
blog to manually set up things tweak the blog to your
like AdSense and Pay Per Click liking.
advertising, you can select an
•Your URL is your address for
option on most blog hosting sites your blog. Rather than having go
that does much of the work for to where your blog is hosted to
you.
read it, they can read it right
The Cons
from your site.
•The ability to make your blog who you are and what you intend
look professional. Blogs that are to use your blog for. If you
hosted on sites of their own tend intend to use it for business,
to look a lot better than those then a self-hosted blog is the
hosted on free sites.
best idea. If it’s a personal
•More space for your blog. blog, then a free hosted blog
Free blog sites usually place a will probably be fine for
restriction on how much space you you.
have for things like photos and
music. By hosting your own blog,
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About the Author:
Tim McLendon is owner of BandoMarketing.com and writes on tips to improve your Internet Home Based Business
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