who needs a hosted domain
Yesterday, wordpress announced that blogs hosted at wordpress.com will get 60x boost. Meaning blogs like this one will have 3 GB storage space for FREE. That makes a wordpress blog three times bigger than a Blogger blog and well for typepad you need to empty your pockets for space that big.
Blogger being a Google baby can always stretch this free space competition to the limits but I was wondering how many bloggers out there really need that much space. Couple of weeks ago I was pondering over moving to my own domain. Its not like I was thinking of hosting a focussed blog and generating some killer content to generate loads of money. At the moment and in the near future I don’t see myself blogging very seriously. Move to new domain is for the sake of having fun with all interesting things that I can learn about hosting a website, tweaking blog design and playing with blog gadgets. For me blogging is for fun. I may appear to be more excited from the announcement but I am not. I certainly do not need 3 GB space for my blog given that most of my pictures are on Flickr and Videos on youtube. I don’t know why but it does give me a sense of security.
There are people who might not need 3 GB, but they certainly need more than 50 MB which was previously available. There are images and videos which you can share on great free hosts but just imagine about some file storage. I am really fed up of free file hosts apart from video and images.
I know what do you mean by ‘Killer Content’, that type of thing shouldn’t be planned. You are generating that content already.
the wordpress.com hosted version doesn’t allow you to do certain things, like hack your template to customize it. i understand that the use of plug-ins is quite limited. stuff like my geotags map is pretty unique. i only know one other blogger who is doing that. so it all depends upon what your goal is :)
Haven’t been able to research your archives as of yet, but I for one would love to read a desi’s take on the Indian food situation in Taipei/Taiwan.