Self Hosted Blogs

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It is nice to host your own blog. However, I do not want the hassle of installing my own blogging platform and updating it regularly. Failing to update it with regular patches could make you vulnerable to network intrusion. Crackers are always on the lookout for exploitable blogs. That is something you would never like to happen. You could find your blog defaced one morning. If your blog has high traffic, you could find out one day that your traffic had been redirected to another site. Internet security is a serious matter that you must consider if you are planning to self-host your blog.

But if you are bent on self-hosting your blog, the first thing that you need to do is to find a Web hosting company that offers the best deal for your needs. There are also reseller web hosting accounts that you might want to look into if you know a lot of people planning to start their own self-hosted blogs. With a reseller Web hosting account, you purchase the Web host's services wholesale and then sell them to people you know for a profit. By the way, this is a relatively simple and inexpensive way to start your own online company and to make money online.

The next question you need to ask yourself is the blogging platform you are going to use. There are a lot of options out there but Wordpress seems to be the platform of choice for the most part. After you have all the necessary ingredients, just mix them all together and hope that everything works out just fine. If not, the support team of your Web hosting company is usually very helpful. There are also a lot of resources on the Internet covering Wordpress installation on your servers. Happy blogging!