Free hosted Blog disadvantages

At hosted free blog services like blogger.com and wordpress.com, you can create a blog in just minutes. Start and the establishment of a is as easy as pie. All you need to do is follow the free host recipe and your blog will soon be online.
This kind of blog is not necessarily the best form. Instead, you'd be better off to pay for hosting, get your own domain name, and installing WordPress as your blogging platform. There are some cons with free hosting that you should be aware of, if you plan to much time and effort put into blogging.
* There will be fewer configuration choices than a self-hosted blog. You'll easily be able to tweak it as much as you could with host. At the beginning, this may not be much of a difference. However, if your blogging requirements and capacities grow, probably you will find the lack of configuration choices a disadvantage. The limits of the configuration of free services can hold you back.
* You must be your theme choose from a selection of canned themes. Some of the choices theme may change some design options built into them, and the specific free hosted service that you choose some theme change may allow. In general though, you themes that everyone else using the free hosted service singles. Your blog will probably wind up looks like a bunch of others. Host, you can create your own unique theme.
* Will the ownership of the content that you create for your blog, but you have no full ownership of your blog with free hosting. The online service that you used for your blog is owned by the domain name that is associated with your blog. You cannot change or improve the blogging platform, you just do it with what is offered. You will have to live with the way that your blog on a free hosted service works. With a self-hosted blog, you own the whole shebang and can do what you want, because you own your own blog. That is a very good thing.
* The default domain name you will have is not a Top-level domain. An example of a Top level domain name is myblogname.com. The domain name will default to the name of the online hosting service. An example would be myblogname.thenameofthefreehost.com. A self-hosted blog with a top-level domain, is simply more professional and impressive. It is best to have your own Top Level domain name register and use for your blog.
* If you ever decide to make the switch, it may be a challenge to get your free hosted blog to a self-hosted blog. You must export your blog content, and then import it into your self-hosted blog. This process may or may not smoothly. Personally, I have good luck export and import content to a self-hosted blog, but can go wrong and my palms were sweaty every time I did this. The worst-case scenario is that valuable content can be lost or are not imported to the new self-hosted blog. Your blog content is all the effort and hard work you put into making your posts. You do not want to disappear forever with a mouse click. Please note that moving content to a self-hosted blog can be risky.
In my opinion, owning your own blog using WordPress as your blogging platform, the self hosted on a Web host you choose, and with your own registered domain name, is the most professional and serious way to blog. You will control your blog and a third-party free hosted blog service will impose no limitations or restrictions on your blog, or what you do with it.

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