As a newbie in blogosphere, you might be confused on which platform you will have your blog built on, either self hosted (wordpress) or free hosted (blogger), as for me, that is a beginner in blogging, i prefer free hosted, to test my knowledge and to see if i will make it in blogging before advancing to self hosted blog.
Now let me start by free hosted blog (blogger).
Free hosted blog is easy to setup, now these are the pros in free hosting account
• You don't have to worry about the maintenance of the server, you are hosted on
• Your blog comes with a free subdomain, e.g yourname.blogspot.com, you can add your custom domain later
• No matter how much traffic, you get your blog will never go offline
• To crown it all, it is free except you want to upgrage to some premium plans
Now that we have the pros, why not let me highlight the the cons
These are the cons of free hosted account
• Incase of copyright infringement, google might take down your blog
• You can't actually design your blog to your taste
• No use of plugins, unlike self hosted blog
• Bad site navigation
We have seen both the pros and cons of hosting a blog on blogger platform, now let's take a look at self hosted (wordpress).
Pros of self hosted account
• The maintenance and look of the blog is on your hands
• You make use of plugins
• You can have the opportunity to own a custom email address like yourname@thedomain.com
Let's take a look at the cons
Cons of self hosted account
• You will be restless ( have experience it before)
• Too much coding required to design your blog
• Wordpress hosting doesn't make use of visual editor
No matter how the cons are in self hosted blog, i think it wins it all, but some of us bloggers want free things (it's normal), that's why i myself prefer blogger platform for a startup, before advancing to self hosted.
Hello, my name is Jack Sparrow. I'm a 50 year old self-employed Pirate from the Caribbean. 
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