Where do you host your personal website/blog?

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I love medium too, especially for the network effect and that you can map your domain name to Medium.

But I prefer a self hosted blog where WordPress excels as the best CMS.

For non-technical folks who want customization, WordPress can easily be customized without looking behind the hood. For example, if I want to build a website as “sophisticated” as Michael Hyatt’s site tomorrow, there is a WordPress theme and plugins in the market for this (all less than $200)

Maybe that’s why we also have many WordPress startups :slight_smile:

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Like I said, if all you just want is simplicity.

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I used blogger then, now just tumblr www.udemesamuel.tumblr.com

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For me I use Namecheap and I haven’t had any issues for about a year…

Their knowledge base is FILLED with a lot of guides, and their support is really cool…

Site is straight forward and quite understandable, and I haven’t seen any upsells unlike Godaddy.

Their setup for SSL and Email services (Google Apps) is really smooth, in fact I recently moved one of my sites from GoDaddy to Namecheap.

I can say I’m in love + ever since I searched for a site on GoDaddy and the next day it had been bought, I’ve disliked them. The only reason I bought a domain name from them was because I had already mistakenly searched for the name with them and I didn’t want to loose it.

Before starting out, I actually asked this kind of question on GDG Lagos › What is the easiest and best VPS Hosting and Domain Registrar for a Beginner to use.

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Yes, but I’d say you have yours hosted somewhere and then have a Medium publication…

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Up the great Gigalayer.com

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so quick question on this thread…
for a personal/lifestyle blog is it better to host locally (whogohost and its brothers) or just use Bluehost as WordPress recommends.
see mine… Yeva :smiley:
Thanks

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Since it’s a personal blog, why are you not considering Medium? Save you a lot of stress and even money?

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both are good options, hosting locally might be a little cheaper and easier to pay(in naira) compared to bluehost or other foreign companies where you might encounter problems with paying in dollars(nigeria banks and card issues)

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SMART…WETIN??? I had to run away last year august when i started SmartGeek. Pls don’t even go there, abeg!

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Same here. I moved from the shitty Smartweb to Namecheap last year and trust me it has been awesome. Customer service is right on point! I don’t see myself leaving Namecheap in years.

I won’t recommend Smartweb to anyone dealing with traffic>1500/day.

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I don’t know why I’m not really feeling medium…
I think I need to do a little more research to be convinced.

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I’d suggest you start immediately

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I used to host on Namecheap, they aren’t as cheap as WhoGoHost or GigaLayer, but they offer SSD disk space which from my understanding means my site gets rendered faster. They also offer the cheapest SSL option around. There is no upsell on their site, and their customer service is nice. I was using their shared hosting.

Like Bankole pointed out, I would recommend Medium for a blog because it is less stressful to manage, and content distribution is easy. Also Medium helps with network effects, so your content if written right, and shared right, will easily be seen. The only down side to Medium is, you need to pay to use your own custom domain.

There maybe a few other cons, but with what I have seen, they keep updating the platform to help with most of the cons.