Starting Your Blogging Business
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If you're planning to start a business or grow an existing one with the help of your blog, here's a crucial starting point: Get your own domain.
I've built several sites in the past on someone else's domain name: Geocities, Hypermart, Blogspot.
I've seen firsthand and secondhand how those sites can suddenly disappear from the face of the internet. Afterall, you may own the web house, but someone else owns the domain land.
If you're just into experimentation, go ahead and play around with your free Blogspot or Wordpress sites. Once you decide to focus on the business side of the web, get your own domain name.
Should we shun those free sites? No, of course not. Those sites can get you started and even help send traffic to your paid sites.
Just remember, though, that free does not mean immortal, so please build your site on your own domain today.
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"Starting Your Blogging Business"
First Posted: August 15, 2006 | Filed in: Web Hosting
Good suggestion! I"m currently working on this aspect of web life right now. Maybe in a week or two it"ll be ready. I"m actually going to host it all in my own server so that is why it"s turning out to be more work. But it should be ready at some point. Are you and other bloggers you know using web hosting services? I decided to opt against that so that I get more control over the box.
Hi CT,
I use web hosting services because I don't have time to worry about whether I've installed the latest security updates. Most of the bloggers I know use third party web host providers, so that they can focus on writing articles. There are some more technically inclined bloggers, though, who don't mind taking care of their own box.