Pros and Cons of hosting WordPress on your Own Server

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 5, 2007 at 6:14 am

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  One benefit of hosting your own WordPress blog that I hadn’t thought about before was that you’re not bound to the TOS of WordPress.com, nor to the classification system. In other words, even if someone thinks your blog is “adult only” nothing is going to happen to it as a result of that. If you have blog scraper, nobody with any power over the blog will have an issue with that.

  With a WordPress.org blog, the only ones besides yourself who can do anything to/with the blog are:
  #1 your web host. Some of those have been known to take blogs down at the slightest whiff of complaint, justified or otherwise, so be careful who you choose.
  #2 whoever sold you your domain name. Some of them have been known to wait till it’s time to renew and, if the blog is at all successful, increase the re-up fee by a factor of, say, ten. If you don’t pony up, you still have the blog, but you no longer have that URL. Welcome to #50,000,000 on Technorati.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 5, 2007 at 6:15 am

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  Oh, and #3 anyone who gets a court order, obviously.

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  drmike · Member · Feb 5, 2007 at 1:56 pm

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  You would then have to deal with the ToS/AUP of the hoster if you moved. Some are even more strict than Mark is.