Why my WordPress Blog is hosted at WordPress.com
Posted on March 13, 2011 1 Comment
- It’s Free
- Compare that to a web host that charges $60+ per year
- Features
- 3 gigabytes of storage for images
- 111 Themes and counting to customize your site
- Integrated stats to track your site growth
- You can leave at any time and take your content with you
- Great uptime and performance
- When you finally get that huge spike in traffic they will be able to handle it
- Lower cost shared web hosting providers can’t match this performance
- Reasonably priced upgrades
- Host your own domain name and build your own brand
- Customize the look of your theme
- It’s WordPress
- The best blogging and CMS platform available
For more thoughts on WordPress.com versus self hosting see this article: Self Hosting: What’s Your Hurry?
Hello there,
Your post itemizes all the reasons I just moved a wordpress.org self hosted install back to free hosting at wordpress.com. Thanks for backlinking to my post.