Disadvantages of Self-Hosted Blog Platforms

Jan 7, 2010 by

Previously we have already covered following articles related to Pros and Cons of Hosted Blog Platforms and Self Hosted Blog Platforms:

Benefits of Self-Hosted Blog Platforms

Disadvantages of Hosted Blog Platforms

Advantages of Hosted Blog Platforms

Now we come up with Disadvantages of Self-Hosted Blog Platforms do checkout below.
Here are the  Disadvantages of Self-Hosted Blog Platforms:

• Complicated setup—Again, this depends upon your technical abilities,but when you move into standalone platforms the complexity of setup tends to increase. At the very least it involves arranging hosting and a domain name. There is a wealth of community support available, but for many it is still a daunting prospect. One way to simplify the process is to find a web host that provides“one-click installs” of popular packages.

• Cost—Though the blog platform itself might be free, you need to factor in the ongoing costs of having your own domain name (a yearly fee plus a one-off registration fee) and hosting fees (monthly or yearly). There are many great deals out on these, so it need not cost the world, but if your blog gets a lot of traffic the costs can go up and you might want to consider going onto a more professional and therefore more expensive plan.

• Updates—Most blog platforms go through changes and versions over time. Updating from one to another can be complicated if you don’t know what you’re doing.

• Hosting issues—I mentioned in the cons of the hosted platforms that you have “less control” over your blog and are at the whim of your platform’s hosting being up or down. Of course, this is also true for any hosting, because from time to time any hosting solution can have problems.

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  1. Srinivasan A Paul Joseph
    January 8, 2010

    First of all, my answers below are keeping WordPress in mind:

    Complicated Setup: No. WordPress is one of the easiest setup ever conceived. It boasts of a simple two step installation (if you given the config file) or three step installation (if you intend to do everything online). Just extract the contents of a downloaded zip file to a web accessible folder and point your browser to that URL to get it setup easily.

    Cost: As you said WordPress is free. The domain and hosting is also much cheaper now a days. I personally give unlimited space and bandwidth for much cheaper prices at: domains.ishatechnologies.in/

    Updates: WordPress makes this ultimate easy. There is easy one click automatic upgrader provided as part of your admin section so that you can upgrade your Themes, Plugins and your entire platform itself from within the browser.

    Hosting Issues: If you find a reliable hosting provider, it’s no big deal. Actually, private hosting is much hacker-free and bound to be having much more uptime than popular hosted service providers. Many hosting providers even provide you One-Click installs to make the installation a breeze.

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    • Shivendu Madhava
      January 8, 2010

      Thanks Sir for your valuable comment the things you have written in the comments are really true but setting up a self hosted blog for a beginner is always a mind storming task.
      So these Disadvantages are not for the people like you who is master of masters.
      Thanks

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      • Srinivasan A Paul Joseph
        January 9, 2010

        Hi Shivendu,

        Thanks for your comments. However, I’ve meant my reply for beginners only.

        Anyways, I’m not master of masters… I’m just trying to be one…

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        • Shivendu Madhava
          January 9, 2010

          Thanks but in my openion you are always my guru so I told you master of masters.

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