If you are thinking about creating a blog and joining the growing blogoshpere on the internet then you need to consider whether or not you want your blog to have a host company attached to it. This question must be answered to determine what you should do: How much content will I post to my blog? Let us be honest; if you are only going to post a couple of times per week you will not need to pay for a hosting plan. Why? Because you can sign up for a blog with blogger or wordpress and have your blog hosted on their platform and servers for no charge whatsoever. You can still post as much content as you would like as many times per day or per week as possible.
The reason for getting your own hosting plan is if you are running a corporate blog that is associated with a business. You might not want blogspot.com or wordpress.com to be included at the end of your website URL address. This do not make your blog look professional and it might even scare people away if they consider your blog unprofessional. This can extremely hurt your business by driving traffic away from the site, which means that you will not pick up new clients or make money from your blog. If you want to create a blog solely to make money from the content you create you will need to have a hosting company because wordpress does not support these actions.
