Bacchus, you’re right that having your own domain is the best way to go. Admittedly, it was naive of me to put too much trust into Google. The benefit of free blogging services, though, is that they help democratize the Internet and allow anyone without the tech know-how to start speaking to the world. If it wasn’t for Blogger I probably wouldn’t have gotten into blogging or certainly not have started as early as I did.

Of course when you begin to get serious you’re expected to pay for your own hosting and domain. But I was comfortable, and since I had not intentions of going commercial, I didn’t see much incentive to pay. I’m seeing more incentive now that I’ve been booted so abruptly. Yeah, Tumblr isn’t too dissimilar to Blogger, but at a moments notice it felt like the right place to go as I look at my options.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again I’m sure: Anything worth doing on the internet is worth doing at your own domain that you control.