Understanding A Hosted Blog
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Some services - such as Blogger - do it for free, while other services like TypePad charge a monthly flat rate to essentially run your blog for you. Other services, like Wordpress, have levels, with a free service and an option to upgrade when your blogging needs it. If you aren't the most technically savvy, being able to rely on and let someone else handle the entire tech side of things might be the best bet.
Bloggers who have been at their game for some time often recommend that new bloggers start off with a hosted service with free services. The logic is pretty simple: if you find the idea of blogger to be kinda neat, or if you haven't really tried blogging yet, or you just want to play around, the day to day aspects of blogging might not be super fun. So any expert - maybe the one writing this blog - might tell newbie blogger that they should use a free hosted blogging service like a free test drive, before they commit time and monetary resources to it.
In the end, sitting down and running a full- or even part-time blog is A LOT of work. If writing turns out to be not what you thought it was, using a free service at the start means you won't pour much money 'down the drain' just to find out you're more interested in something else.
If, however, you are interested in installing your own blog software and going the more-costly, self-hosted route, I'll talk a little more about that later.
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