I have setup a couple of blogs on WordPress.com and have found that the custom domain blogs are very reasonably priced and I don’t have to worry about my beloved server Jules dying (a computer that I built in 2003 for $400 and have been hosting in a Dallas based Colo for about 3 years now), WordPress.com will have all my blog data backed up. (In terms of Pics, since moving to WordPress, I have tried to keep all my photos on flickr.com, as I knew the day would come where I would need to move my blog off Jules and I just didn’t want to deal with transferring photos, not to mention that should I have a really, really popular photo or blog post, the potential issues on bandwidth are mitigated by hosting those images over on flickr.com
I still need to figure out what I am going to do with my Technosnobs.com blog, as it is in serendipity, need to see about importing it into WordPress. I will likely move Hashserver.com over to Vincent, but I am giving serious notion to spinning up an Amazon EC2 instance, need to give Cloud Computing a try.
I am in the process right now of registering my Ben.Dominguez-Benner.com domain on WordPress.com.
So the next blog post that I make should be on WordPress.com, of course I don’t think anyone should really notice.
I did want to point out that one of other reasons (aside from Jules potentially dying) is that I bought an iPad, and want to use the WordPress app, which would require me to upgrade my install of WordPress, not something I really want to bother with.
Laterz