Blog Hosting: why you need to have your own
Many of my readers may be aware that when I arrived back into town from my grandmother’s September 1 funeral, I was greeted by an almost impossible to comprehend message from the owner of the Rainbow of Words blog host telling me my accounts had been suspended. Apparently she did not agree with the statements I had made in one of my postings.
That two-week suspension turned out to be permanent, as the owner never once responded to me and has yet to allow me access to my blogs – blogs I had been writing in for close to a year.
Anyway, what it taught me is that if you love to blog, you need to have your own hosting account. I had already set this blog up months before and had intended to migrate my other two blogs onto their own domains on this hosting account. I’d been fearful about starting over in the race for Page Rank, but as we all know now – Google Page Rank is as close to worthless in the world of online marketing as it has ever been.
If you do not have your OWN hosting account now, get one. If you are using a free blog host somewhere or piggy-backing on a friend’s account, or any other situation where you do not have full and complete access to the files and the determination of your own Terms of Service, then you need to look into blog hosting accounts pronto.
While I personally recommend Wordpress hosting, there are also other blogging platforms that are just as well-liked and easy to navigate. Movable Type is one of the other popular blogging software packages. Several big hosting companies are able to offer accounts that cost close to nothing on a monthly basis. The benefits are many: control over your blog’s content, the ability to upload files and install plugins, sub domains, matching e-mail addresses, and more. AQHost is one provider, for example, that offers free instant installation of the blogging software and video tutorials to walk you through getting started. Since customer service is a MUST when considering a blog host, this is key information.
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