Having your own domain is nice for, say, email and web presence.
However, I found that when I kept my blog on my own domain, very few people ever left comments. Even with an LJ RSS feed, there just isn't the same sense of community you get from LJ.
I think what I'd like to do (once I'm out of school and have time for things like this again) is keep an infrequently updated work / travel blog on my own domain, and keep the personal stuff on LJ.
That said, I would highly recommend Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com) for a provider. They're inexpensive, they have great services, and their CEO is certifiably weird. They'll even automatically set up WordPress (one of the better blogging platforms out there) with a click of a button. Wordpress is nice in that it's pretty easily tweakable (PHP isn't the hardest language to learn) and there are plenty of themes out there that you can use.
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Date: 2006-01-03 02:08 pm (UTC)However, I found that when I kept my blog on my own domain, very few people ever left comments. Even with an LJ RSS feed, there just isn't the same sense of community you get from LJ.
I think what I'd like to do (once I'm out of school and have time for things like this again) is keep an infrequently updated work / travel blog on my own domain, and keep the personal stuff on LJ.
That said, I would highly recommend Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com) for a provider. They're inexpensive, they have great services, and their CEO is certifiably weird. They'll even automatically set up WordPress (one of the better blogging platforms out there) with a click of a button. Wordpress is nice in that it's pretty easily tweakable (PHP isn't the hardest language to learn) and there are plenty of themes out there that you can use.