Recommendation #3: Blogger Websites or Your Own ISP?

It is extremely easy to get started on blogger or wordpress or an equivalent blogging website. And is free. You can also get fairly inexpensive services such as Typepad (just $49 per year). They also come all tricked out and with base systems (comments, spam filtering etc) working right out of the box.

In reading blogs, before I started out, I found a lot of feedback around benefits of such services but also the limitations that these services placed in how much you could extend out platforms or concerns around how much flexibility there was to do Search Engine Optimization or help / support that you could get if things were not working well (though this might not happen a lot).

LunarpagesMy decision was to go with my own ISP, www.lunarpages.com, who had tremendous support and one heck of a good deal on hosting services ($7 per month plus free website domain for life, plus three gigs of storage and eight hundred gigs of transfer – I will never get that important!). They provide phone support, rare for ISP. This gives me extra peace of mind (have never had to call them yet) and it was quite inexpensive.

Get your own ISP services, again for some of the reasons above related to the control you can have, the support and portability (if you want to move / change etc).