Hosted vs Self-Hosted Blogs

Ever thinking of starting your own blog just for fun or profit?  First question that comes to mind is: Free Hosted or Self-Hosted?

Free Hosted Blog

Free blog comes freely, you can sign up in just a 5 minutes from: Blogger, TypePad and Wordpress.  There are more of all these free blogs around but these 3 are more prominent. With blogger.com you can simply sign up within 5 minutes, and viola your blog is up and running. You can also create as many blogs under one account. However the cons is - the biggest drawback about using free sites is that they are limited to what you can change on a blog.  A good example would be you want to add custom HTML code to you blog, you will have to upgrade and transfer all of your content later. Also, the most cumbersome problem is you will not have your own URL!

Self-Hosted Blog

you will need to buy a domain name (RM100) and a web hosting package that probably cost you about RM299/year, setup a blogging software, and take care of the details yourself (or contact PooiLing for help!) it may requires a little bit of effort to setup the blog, however, from the minute you host your own blog you will have total control and freedom of your site.  You can change absolutely everything on your blog from blog theme, to header and add HTML code wherever you want and make the blog of your dream.  You can also add custom pages, really you become a webmaster. from my experience, i highly recommend you to have a self-hosted blog because you can always make changes to your themes easily and you will not have any sort of restrictions. You can even build in a forum if you site is a place where people would gather and share ideas. As i mentioned before, it’s a total freedom for you! So, start today to create a blog and have your site up and running by the end of the day!  And, looking at the image below, you can have absolutely 100 to 1000 domain names to choose from for your own self-hosted blog!

own domain name

Free Hosted vs Self-Hosted?

The choice, of course, is up to you and you should get the blog setup that best meets your needs. If you only plan on sharing the blog with friends & family, then a free hosted blog plan is sufficient.

However, if you need a good solution for business that wanted an inexpensive hosting solution - WORDPRESS is the answer for you, easy to use and provides such flexibility while take care of  most complicated code by widget.  And, if you have plans on starting a blog that will be highly traffkeced and will make money, i strongly recommend purchasing your own domain name and self hosted. With just RM299, save yourself a lot headachees down the road!

PooiLing.com provides wordpress blog site setup with minimum fee with the best quality!

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