I’ve tried blogger (in the past, not the latest), Typepad, Yahoo 360, WordPress sefl-hosted and WordPress @ WordPress.com

WordPress on a self-hosted site was the best approach for me. I found that I could do whatever I wanted to with the code (as you have witnessed) and I could choose a reliable host as well. I’ve been very happy with hosting with A Small Orange (www.asmallorange.com).

Self-hosting hasn’t been alot of work. The upload took like 15 minutes. The hardest part was choosing a theme. In my latest iteration that I’ve inflicted on you and the other readers here I’ve chosen Sandbox and to do the CSS mods myself. So, that’s meant more working on code for now, but it’s temporary and I’m learning something too. For me, it’s been worth the extra time, but honestly, after the initial install and the updates when they come out, it hasn’t been that much more time. Though I’m making slow changes to the site to pretty it up, I can just input content as easily as I did with Typepad and easier than with the old Blogger.

As for WP-Admin. I take care of all of that on my end. A Small Orange just gives me the infrastructure and tools. I take care of all the rest including back up, updating to the latest WordPress roll and spam killing (which is a snap with Akismet).

WordPress.com is a good alternative I think as they take care of everything, even the updates to WordPress. You just choose the plan you want (free or paying some money to give you access to hack the CSS, get more storage, or have map to your own domain) then go from there.

Thank you for the comment, I guess I have two known readers now

~*Becki*~

I’ve been posting a blog on Blogger, usually about once a month or so. I’m debating on setting something up in WordPress… Is it worth doing? I’m also guessing that this is hosted. Is WP management in their hands or yours?