For over four years of on-and-off blogging, I moved shop from Tabulas, Livejournal, Multiply, WordPress.com, i.ph and Myjournal.ph. All these websites provide great service in terms of giving you the ability to instantly broadcast your articles, pictures and what not for the rest of the world to see, but due to one reason or another, most of them don’t give you complete creative control. For WordPress.com for instance, you’re not really allowed to tweak much of the layout and inserting javascript codes is actually prohibited. Of course, the thrill of having your personal rostrum and soapbox is appealing – you get hundreds of hits, people compliment you for your work and you don’t even have to spend a single cent to run the site.
As with any project or process in life, there would come a time when you’d want greater control. You’d want to be identified with a brand and mark that is solely your own. I felt that urge to buy hosting and domain early last year. I felt it was time to step out of the the realm of WordPress.com and just be one of the big boys swinging for the fences. Buying your domain and hosting allows you to do just about everything you could possibly want to do on your blog.
I ran Atheista.net for just a little over one thousand pesos last year and I’m sure you would agree that such an amount is negligible compared to what I was able to do with it.
I stumbled upon an interesting resource that seeks to help out people who are trying to find hosting packages. How many times have we seen our friends whine over Twitter than their blog is down and their hosting sucks. Through Web Hosting Choice’s website and newsletter, one could definitely familiarize oneself with the buzzwords, jargons and common policies that web hosting companies usually employ. I learned the whole thing pretty much by ear because the first few months of my deal featured fairly bad service, but with this resource, you would have a lot of information to further prepare you for what you’re getting into.
In the past year, I say a lot of bloggers step out of their Blogspot and WordPress addresses for a more individualized URL. As cheesy as it sounds, the feeling of ownership that comes with an address that you could identify with immeasurable. And considering it’s almost always affordable, it’s easy to make that decision.
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