Hosting your own WP or going with WordPress.com?
One of the big questions on choosing how to set up your blog is always if you should go with your own hosting or hook up with wordpress.com. I would almost always go for my own WP-installation but not always, as you can see. There are pros and cons with both but the biggest pros for your self hosted wordpress is the adaptaion possibilities and the brand awareness factor. If you host your own WP the possibilities to make changes are unlimited, you can make your blog look and work like almost anything you can imagine.
On the other hand, it’s so easy getting started with a wordpress.com blog it’s almost a shame everythime you chose another option. It will take you less than a few minutes to get started AND get traffic to your blog. There are not only a lot of publishers around on wordpress.com but a great amount of readers too and if you tag your posts properly you can definately get quite a few visitors the first few days of blogging.
I chose my own instance of WordPress in 99% of the cases but I do recommend the less experienced users to go with wordpress.com, for that very reason, it’s so simple. You can even with a few clicks get your own domain name.
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