hould you host your blog
yourself or pay someone to This is where the blogging system
host it? It doesn't matter or software is provided for you
if you're a newbie or a veteran and your blog is also published
this question always comes up to a web space provided by the
when creating a new blog. Usually host. Blogger, SquareSpace and
someone new to blogging would Typepad fall into this category.
gravitate to hosting a blog It's very much like creating a
themselves or get a free blog and website with a site builder.
as time goes by with experience
they begin to ponder maybe paid Hosted blog software but
blog hosting isn't so bad after published elsewhere
all. So what is better?
This is where the blog software
To answer this question, let's is provided for you but the blog
first look at how a blog is pages are published to another
created. Just like creating web website or web host altogether.
pages, first, you need a software By doing this, the software acts
or script that will take your as a publishing system like
entries, format it and publish it FrontPage except it creates
to the web. The second component nicely formatted blogs. Blogger
of a blog, is the web space, is probably the most well known
where the software should publish for this. Yes Blogger can do
to, a home for the blog pages. both. Publish to their host or to
yours. As a comparison, this is
Knowing this information, let's like using FrontPage to publish
review the different ways to host your website.
a blog:
Blog software and blog are hosted
Full blog host. on your web server
won't have to worry about
This is where you would install upgrading the blog script, people
the blog script (software) on exploiting the script, making
your web server - it can be any plug-ins work or what happens
web hosting account. And when you when your web host decides to
publish, the blog itself resides disable part of your blog
on your web server also. To draw functions because there is a
a parallel, this technique is security hole. All you do is
like buying web hosting and then concentrate on blogging. After a
installing a content management while, blogging becomes more
system on it to help you build important than maintaining your
web pages. blog and that's the way it should
be.
If you're new to building web
pages or have built sites using Next up, hosted software but blog
site builders then you might want is published to your website.
to go with a fully hosted blog. This seems to be the best of both
These hosts do all the nitty worlds. At time of writing,
gritty for you and there's very Blogger is one of the best ways
little technical stuff you need to do this but because of its
to know. If you can point and popularity often, you find the
click, you can build a blog with system too slow to publish or
a full blog host. completely down just when you
have a hot idea to share. The
Having said that, just because idea is good but you'll also be
you're seasoned at building web depending on someone else's
pages doesn't mean full blog availability to publish your
hosts won't work for you. In blog. It's much like using a
fact, if you have many blogs this friend's computer to build your
becomes very appealing since you web pages and you know how that
can go. the script is on you. If you have
one or two blogs it's not so bad
Finally, you have the option to but once you start having more,
use scripts. This is also a very it can be quite tedious. You also
popular method. The flexibility have to consider all the other
it allows is very liberating responsibilities of maintaining
because you can mould the blog the script as mentioned earlier.
anyway you want. You can even get
a programmer to create custom Armed with this information, you
plug-ins or customize the whole should be able to figure out
blogging system the way you want which one is for you. If you're
it. In short, you can do pretty still undecided, think of how you
much anything you want. would do it if you're creating a
regular website. Chances are your
The down side, you need at the choice method for publishing a
very basic, some knowledge of website is also the best method
HTML or publishing web pages. for you to create a blog.
Also the burden of upgrading,
troubleshooting and maintaining
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