Serious Blogging and Hosting

Between a self-hosted blog and free blogging platforms, I’d go for the latter. My primary consideration is simply cost. Blogspot is free. So why bother to shell-out $5 to $10 a month for hosting? However, if you are really serious about blogging and making money out of your blog, then I would immediately change side and recommend the former. My primary consideration? Freedom! Oh, no! I am not talking about ‘liberation’ here silly. Freedom in the sense that you are not restricted compared to abiding on TOS impositions by free blogging platform.

Three of my other blogs are self-hosted on the same provider including their domain registration. I never experimented on any other hosting entity because a blogger friend advised me to check-out the reviews and ratings made by actual satisfied customers . I did.

IMO, a good hosting rating should have been made on the basis of (1) customer satisfaction, (2) affordability, (3) reliability, (4) up-time, and (5) technical support. Not all can offer all of these on the same quality, hence you have to carefully look into each offer or package based on the criterion above. Otherwise, you will face the same agony that most bloggers experienced in migrating their blog from one hosting to the other.