What's Remotely Hosted Blogging Software

By Sean Raymond

Blogging is very common currently. There are various blog software you can leverage to write blogs, and one of them is remotely hosted blogging software.

The most famous remotely hosted blogging software should be Blogger.com, or MySpace.com. They provide you with a blog platform including blog software, and the hosting. In order to start blogging, you will only need to open an account with them, and everything will be setup automatically in minutes. And usually, you can get all those as free.

Although this type of blogging system will give you a very easy and low-cost startup, there are some cons. of it as well, such as:

The system is less configurable

Most of them are very limited in terms of features and it's very hard to design a professional bog template with the functional they provide. You will see that almost all the blogs hosted by them looks close.

URL to Your Blog is Generic

The URL to your blog is either a sub-domain of the site or an inner link of them. You will not have your very own Blog URL. When it comes to a time that you plan to host the blog by yourselves as the growth of it, then there are 2 big issues you have to face:

It's hard to migrate the content of the existing blog to the new blog platform since the technology used is not open.

All your SEO marketing (or blog promotion) effort will be wasted. Search engine only recognizes the URL, and all your marketing effort are on your old URL, which cannot to go with your new blog. In the other word, you have to rebuild your blog brand online. This will be the biggest lost when you shift from remotely hosted blogging to self hosted blogging. Rebuilding a successful blog really takes time.

Less control

This means a lot. You cannot fix the bug of the system if there any. There is no guarantee on the reliability of the system since it's free (you are somewhat at the mercy of their platform in terms of whether their blog is working or not). If they plan to close their blogging service, then your blog will be gone.

Remotely hosted blogging software really simply the process to start a blog, but considering the cons of it, personally, I would only recommend it to some personal blog or family blog. For business blog, it would be good to host the blog by yourself.

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