Kreblog

I’ve done it all:

• I’ve been on Blogger (hosted myself and hosted on blogspot.com).
• I’ve been on MovableType (hosted myself… I think twice).
• I’ve been on Community Server (hosted myself).
• I’ve been on .TEXT (hosted myself).
• I’ve been on dasBlog (hosted myself).
• I’ve been on WordPress (hosted myself and hosted on wordpress.com).
• I have Windows Live Spaces, Yahoo 360, Vox, LiveJournal, MySpace, and Facebook accounts… all are unused because blogging there is either confusing and/or subpar.

And my conclusions up to this point:

• Don’t host yourself. Why? Upgrades are a pain in the ass and server hosting isn’t cheap (just for hosting a blog of nonsense.. I paid $10/month).
• WordPress is currently the best blogging server software hands down.
• Don’t use Blogger (they have too many outages and you get new features only when it’s a presidential election year). Plus all the original Blogger people have left anyway.
• wordpress.com is the best blogging host.
  • Free hosting with 3GBs of free space.
  • The best web stats I’ve seen (no need for those Sitemeter image kludges).
  • They are constantly adding new features… like snowflakes
  • If you want your own domain name/URL, it is only $10/year (does not include domain registration… go to Go Daddy for that).
  • If you want email addresses using your domain name, they make setting up Google Apps For Domains a breeze.
• WordPress has the best anti-comment spam system (Akismet). Seriously, I don’t deal with ANY COMMENT SPAM… and I don’t use those god awful CAPTCHAs like Blogger. Oh, I get comment spam, it’s just that it’s automatically handled for me.
• Finally, WordPress makes importing your old blog posts from Blogger or MovableType a snap (look under “Manage->Import”).

Too bad I’m not getting paid by WordPress