Ternyata dah very very long time not posting at this blog.. very sorry for that. This post just wanna tell you about the existence of my other blogs.
I have some blogs, mostly on Blogspot, while i have 2 blogs only using WordPress. One of my WordPress blog is this free blog, with the wordpress_com on the address. My another blog using WordPress is TheGeom.com which is a self-hosted WordPress blog.
Of course there are some advantages and disadvantages of using the free-service blog and self-hosted one. Here are some of them:
1. Free-service blog
- The free-service blog usually contains the name of the service provider at the end of the address. For example: mervandi.blogspot.com or mervandi.wordpress.com. Yes, just like this one.
- One of the most advantages of this free-service blog is, that it will never die. You don’t have to worry that your blog will be dissappear. As long as the service-provider is there, your blogs will be there too. You don’t have to be bothered to manage the domain name, you don’t have to worry about the space-quota of your blog, you don’t have to worry that your domain name and the hosting will expire, because they’re all handled by the service provider.
- While one of the most disadvantages is, that you could not modify or manage everything at the blog freely. For example: you can not use any theme you like with the free-service blog. Just like this blog.. where I could not put another blog-themes I like, but the themes given by the service provider -in this case is WordPress.com.
2. Self-hosted blog
- Self-hosted blog is easily recognized from its name. First, it does not contain the name of any blog-provider like Blogspot, WordPress, Multiply and so on. Second, it contains only the name and the dot (could be .com, .net, .id, web.id and so on). For example: TheGeom.com.
- The most disadvantages of a self-hosted blog are: you will get busy with the domain and hosting matters, from the very start. You will be considering very carefully where to hire a server for space -called a hosting-, and when you’ve done with it, you must keep the domain and the hosting a life, for which you must pay for some extra money in order to maintain your domain (that is the blog name), and watch carefully your bandwith and space-quota of your hosting. Otherwise, your blog will be gone forever. Imagine the busy works, if you have many self-hosted blogs.
- The most advantages of a self-hosted blog are: you can manage anything of your blog, you can even monetize it, and the most important is that you are the very only master of your blog. It means that you can put or delete themes or anything you like or dislike from your blog, you can spare some space for people hire, or you can apply to any service provider for profit or revenue-sharing by putting their ads on your self-hosted blog. In short, you can optimize your blog at its potential.
Well then, it’s up to you, whether you prefer to own a free-service blog or the self-hosted blog. Whatever your decision is, I invite you to visit TheGeom, and perhaps we could link each other on blogs. See you around..!
Thank you for visiting, reading and may be commenting. I’ll put this post on TheGeom.com too.
