Don’t let the price of hosting hold you back.

One of the two bggest reasons fellow bloggers give for staying with services like blogger or WordPress.com is that the cost of web hosting is simply too high to justify the move to their own domain. I really hve to stress the point that the downside of having to pay as little as $2.49 a month is more than worth the benefits of hosting your own blog installation.

Sure, staying with a service provider gets you updates and a few other freebies, but it robs you of much of the power of your own hosted site.  If you want truly custom layouts, you’ll be paying for them, and paying big.  You have to dael with slowdowns on the networks caused by high traffic to blogs that have nothing to do with your own, you have to abide by their rules and your options for monetization are limited to just a few of the major players in the industry.

In short, you’re holding yourself back. There may never be a point at which you are comfortable moving your blog from a service-hosted solution to your own, bt I guarantee that within a few months of doing so you’ll wonder exactly why you hadn’t done so sooner.

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