A big trend these days online is blogging. There are many places a person can blog, but not every free and hosted place online gives the control that a self-hosted blogger gets.

In self-hosting your blog:

• You have more control over your files
• You can see your site statistics in more depth
• You can install the necessary precautions to protect your blog and files
• You can make money in more places
• You can make sub-sites or subfolders, and install other scripts (like a forum) as additional features of your blog

The other part is that you can install what blog platform you wish to use. Whether you like Joomla, WordPress, b2evolution, which are scripts offered through cPanel Fantastico Deluxe, you will be able to comfortably blog anytime you wish.

With WordPress in particular, you can import RSS feeds and even blog entries from various places onlike, like Blogspot and LiveJournal. You can even host your friend’s blogs too and give them a subdomain, email and ftp account. It gives them the ability to share your experience of self-hosting a blog.