Let’s face it – blogging is the new trend. People have been migrating from blog platforms and buying their own domains (sometimes, multiple domains at that – it is cheap!) and even making money out of all it.

Count me in as one of the people sucked in by the trend. But consider me as one of the few who started even before it was a trend. I have been blogging since 2003 – that’s going to be six years of stuff online you can find if you are good enough (and have stalker abilities). I started from blogger communities like Live Journal and had mine at friends’ only. I was not ready to bare it all, so to speak, and I was quite paranoid about my parents discovering what I wrote. Of course, my writing there was no-holds barred, it came from the heart, and it was real. NOT that I’m saying what I’m writing now isn’t, but blogging is like public speaking, you need censure and be remindful that even if it is YOUR blog and you can WRITE anything you want, you still have a responsibility to yourself and to other people to moderate your stuff. And just imagine – once you put it on the web, it’s there for the whole world to see. (If that doesn’t censure you at all, I don’t know what will!)

On to the technicalities of blogging, domain names cost around USD8-10 so it is really pretty cheap. I actually register all of mine with go daddy. Go Daddy offers hosting packages too but since I’m techie-impaired, I decided to hitch and share a hosting package with a techie-enabled friend (who does all the backend work for me, bless her kind soul). You can find reviews about Go Daddy and its hosting packages at WPDesigner.com.