Best Free Blogging Platform?

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If your planning to update your blog regularly than I wouldn't recommend blogger because they delete blogs too regularly due to Google's stern measures on tackling web spam. However, blogger would be OK for a smaller blog though as it's a nice platform with a good interface and fast loading times.

Id recommend the free hosting platforms as mentioned above.

Sorry, but this simply doesn't follow at all. The search engines aren't going to penalize you for hosting somewhere like Byethost. There are paid sites and free sites there sharing the same servers. Nobody will know that you're using free hosting. Not even Google. They're not even going to penalize you for hosting on a free subdomain. How your site ranks will depend on exactly the same factors that it would depend on if you were hosted somewhere like Hostgator.

Why do so many people believe this? Sorry to sound so argumentative, Fazal, but it's incorrect.

My information on that question may be a little out of date, I'm afraid.

I believe that Byethost is probably the best and best-established host of the three, by some margin. However, I think you can't install WordPress there as a "one-click operation". (That's not the safest way to install it anyway, for security reasons, but if it's important to you ...).

I believe you can install it "with one click" at Freehostia.com.

Both those sites have various paid hosting upgrades available, which is quite a good sign because it suggests that their business model is to provide a decent service in the hope that their initially-free-hosting customers will stay for the long-term, and pay in future. (I know that many people do that at Byethost, anyway).

Another option with a reasonably good reputation is Hostica (not actually free, but they charge only $1 per month for one site).

If you can register your own domain, for about $9/$10 per year (not where you host, but somewhere like Namecheap or wherever), in the long run that's a really good thing to do. It's an asset, and it gives you more control, too, if you ever want to move hosts in future. But don't ever buy a domain-name from the company where you're also hosting the site. But you can always start off on a free subdomain at any of those free hosts we're discussing, anyway.

Good luck!

I don't think you'll need to transfer the content from one domain to another. I think you'll need to re-direct the (new) domain-name's domain-name servers from the place where you register it (Namecheap, or wherever) to Byethost, if that's where you're hosting the content.

The advantage of using Byethost, in these circumstances, is that you can always upgrade to paid hosting there, and they're a reliable and professional enough host not to have to move your content in future. I know marketers who've hosted many sites there successfully for many years (having originally started off on free hosting in the same place). It doesn't need to be just "temporary" hosting. And it's certainly far easier to redirect your (future) domain-name to the content than it is to move the content.

Take no notice at all of people telling you that your site "won't rank if it's on free hosting": it's utter nonsense - I think they must just be repeating something they've seen someone else saying, without thinking it through at all.