Pros and Cons to private server WP blog?
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to better ask this?
what are the pros and cons about having your WP blog on a private server as oppose to a free one here?
im new at this but so far ive only seen that in my server hosted WP blog, i can install a SLEW of stuff that i cannot on this…anything else im missing?
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The biggest disadvantage to a private server is that if it goes down, you’re most often on your own; trying to resolve the issue.
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as far as a selfhosted blog that you pay for a server…
Pro: a LOT more freedom, Javascripts and Java apps, carts, more themes, many many plug ins.
Con: Time consuming education on things such FTP, Bandwidth issues if your site loads slow.I think the biggest issue of using a self hosted site, is it takes a lot more time to learn and maintenance, troubleshoot.
A wordpress.com blog is much more limited. But Huge hassles are taken care of by the wordpress staff. -
Self-hosted — in addition to above-mentioned pros:
If you don’t want ads, you won’t have them. If you want them, you can have them.
CSS and .php changes are free.Cons:
When something goes wrong, you fix it.
Upgrades are your responsibility.
Potential and probability of server downtime at some point. Not likely with a .com blog.
Potential to be hacked. Not likely with a .com blog. -
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Not to mention, if your blog is hosted here and someone screams about what you wrote, staff probably won’t take it down. Staff at other hosts have been known to take entire blogs down at the slightest poke. YouTube deleted thousands and thousands of videos because this one Australian kid claimed he owned them.
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okay so what about something like visitors, i was wondering this because, when i had a
myblog.WP.com blog, even though i JUST created it, ppl came fom all over the place…in my private server, i dont see the random ppl as muchhow does this work?
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See WordPress.com takes care of pinging for you. This makes your blog visible on various search engines, more traffic and visitors.
You don’t even have to know what “pinging” is. These are things that you have to learn about with self hosting. -
WP.com has massive, built-in SEO advantages all over the place. No independent blog can approach those advantages and I can’t even begin to list them.
I have a blog that I really want to get hits to; I will go off WP.com soon enough, but I always knew I’d start it here, specifically because of those advantages. In my opinion, you’d be nuts not to if you’re after hits. Start at WP.com with a unique domain name, and move it when you’re ready to put ads or whatever on it.
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@ raincoaster when you became raincoaster. com instead of raincoaster . wordpress . com. were you able to maintain your search engine ratings?
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No, not for raincoaster.com; pretty much everywhere treated it as an entirely new site. I didn’t lose status for raincoaster.wordpress.com, except gradually as people quit linking to it. It took months to recover Technorati and google ranking.
This is why I always suggest getting your unique domain name right away, as soon as humanly possible. For the blog I’m talking about (which isn’t raincoaster) I got it within a week of starting up. That way all the links go to the new domain name and you don’t lose ANY status if you switch servers.
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onchannelg Member June 29th, 2008 at 12:12 am
okay so what about something like visitors, i was wondering this because, when i had a
myblog.WP.com blog, even though i JUST created it, ppl came fom all over the place…in my private server, i dont see the random ppl as muchhow does this work?
WordPress.com has tags and categories and a global tag page. If let’s say you have a music blog and you blogged about Amy Whinehouse. Use the tags Music and Amy Whinehouse. That ends up on the global tag page for Music and Amy Whinehouse. Then other WordPress.com bloggers can go there to see who else is blogging about music and Amy. And searches from search engines can land on there bringing in non-Wordpress.com users.
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thanks for the swift reply fellas….very interesting.
to quote pornstarbabylon: “If let’s say you have a music blog and you blogged about Amy Whinehouse. Use the tags Music and Amy Whinehouse. That ends up on the global tag page for Music and Amy Whinehouse. Then other WordPress.com bloggers can go there to see who else is blogging about music and Amy. And searches from search engines can land on there bringing in non-Wordpress.com users. “
so with this said, the same cant be done with a personal self hosted WPblog? like this global tag page, isnt it ALL WordPress so shouldnt it all work together since its STILL a WP, or are you saying that the only way to take advantage of all these options is to have a WP.com addy??
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The only way is to be hosted by WP.com. Independent blogs, even those using WordPress software, don’t get in on the global tag page option, as much as they’d like it.
WordPress MU installs, where there are a whole lot of different blogs all being run by the same software, can have their own global tag pages, but without two million users those pages will never have the juice of WP.com.
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Oh, people doing Technorati tag searches can see your posts, provided you’re using tags that are Technorati-compatible. But that depends on how you design your blog, if it’s outside of WP.com.
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