Everyone who has been blogging for sometime will tell you that you should buy and host your own domain. They say it makes you look more professional. They say you can make more money that way. They say you have total control on what you do with your blog. They say lots of good things so you will sign up with the hosting company that they are affiliated with. I too, have my own domain. So let me tell you 10 reasons why you should NOT host your own domain.
- Buying a domain and maintaining it cost money
- You are not a professional blogger, so you don’t have to look professional
- You still can write lots of reviews in many free platforms and still make money
- You can and in fact Google encourages you, to insert Adsense in Blogger
- You can attain a good Page Rank faster riding on the back of the Blogspot domain
- You don’t have to go through the hell of updating Wordpress every 2 months.
- You won’t have to tear your hair out by calling your Host each time the server crashes.
- You won’t have to endure sleepless nights becauce nobody attended or answered the numerous tickets you submitted.
- You don’t have to worry about the “Wordpress database error” message that I keep getting right now.
- You can simply abandon the free blog and you won’t loose a single dime.
I think your views are only subjective based on the your own webhost.
There are cheaper alternatives out there who still provide fantastic results in terms of support, etc.
It’s time for you to abandon blogigs.com and switch to blogger?
All I know is there’ll be pros and cons about web hosting — for free or paid. I know of a few blogspot blogs that are doing very well with PR5 and with good, readable content. You’re just making sense of the hosting issue and I agree with your thinking. Nothing wrong with that. I have blogspot blogs and paid hosting WP blogs as well. There’s alway this group of people in blogosphere who will always try to run down free Blogger blogs because it’s owned by Google. Wait one day when Google (with their spending power) steps up to turn Blogger into a more advance blogging platform, then we’ll see how the prejudiced ones react.
Blogigs is doing very well at the moment and I think if you continue with the same kind of thoughts you put into the posts, it will definitely grow. I prefer this blog more than your other blogs.
Thank You for the kind words, Marrk.
Don’t worry about it. It’s just a spur of the moment frustration of running into some errors after upgrading to Wordpress 2.3!
Buying a domain and maintaining it cost money
A TLD (Top level domain) Costs around $1 SGD a month only. If you cant afford that, you should not even be surfing the net.
You are not a professional blogger, so you don’t have to look professional
What? Only professional bloggers use top level domains? Domains give you a more personalized feel to your website. It creates sort of a sense of belonging to you. Hello? How on earth did you get that conception that only domains are for professional bloggers?
You still can write lots of reviews in many free platforms and still make money
Thats of course. I agreed
You can and in fact Google encourages you, to insert Adsense in Blogger
Blogger belongs to Google. enough said.
You can attain a good Page Rank faster riding on the back of the Blogspot domain
If you aint professional, who cares about page rank? And by the way, traffic is more important than page rank.
You don’t have to go through the hell of updating Wordpress every 2 months.
You should stop blogging then. If thats troublesome, blogging just isnt for you.
You won’t have to tear your hair out by calling your Host each time the server crashes.
Choose a good host. Local host are usually more reliable however overseas hosting sometimes are really more cost saving and reliable. You have to choose correctly.
You won’t have to endure sleepless nights becauce nobody attended or answered the numerous tickets you submitted.
As above.
You don’t have to worry about the “Wordpress database error” message that I keep getting right now.
When you fall, you just have to get up again. If everything you want is the easy way out, your life is filled with junk.
You can simply abandon the free blog and you won’t loose a single dime.
Agreed. But if you know that you would abandon it one day, you would not even think of getting a domain nor host yourself.
Oh no! Upgrading to WP 2.3 had errors? I haven’t upgraded yet and my plugin can’t work when using FF2 with Vista. GRR!
Just to add on, I am hosting my own blog. And I am am no professional blogger, I just want my own identity. Sure having a domain needs money but everyone can afford it, I am only paying $25 a year for my hosting, so surely everyone can afford it.
I have been hosted for about 4 months now and I have had only short outbursts of downtime of less than 5 minutes, so really I do not have any problem you are encountering.
Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 is easy, I did it without much trouble at all. If you are unsure, there are always a lot of guides for you.
Swift said my thoughts already. I think this article should be title, “How to Be the Underachieving Blogger You Always Wanted to Be”. Bad advice, bad article.
I think I was a bit short-sited with my last comment. For many people hosting their own domain may be too much for them to handle or more than they care to deal with…for many people it is overkill…. so I was wrong in my comment. My apologies. Helping others learn is a good thing and who am I to say this article will not help others… Again, my apologies.
Trace,
No need to apologise. My comments are opened, so everyone if free to state their views about what I said.
Buthen it would of course be better to read in between the lines when commenting for I might be implying on something else while writing on another.
Thanks for comenting!