Wordpress.Com hosting – not my thing.
I feel this urge to express my frustration with wordpress.com service. I always knew that wordpress is a great blogging tool, very advanced with so many plugins available. So after I dropped my VPS hosting it was just natural to move to wordpress.com. The only thing I had to pay was 10$ for custom domain name per year, which looked reasonable. But then bad things started to build up.
When my CNAME on DNS panel was ready and I payed my 10 bucks I realized that there is no actual custom domain! There is just a silly redirect to .wordpress.com url! Sorry guys, that that is NOT what I wanted. I want people to bookmark MY domain so I have the freedom to move the blog anywhere I want in the future.
Then I started fixing some of the old imported posts. In the beginning I thought that embedded flash went a bit funny. After some googling though I figured out that I cannot put custom flash inside my posts! I can put youtube videos, music and some other silly 3rd party service. I went nuts at this point.
There were a few minor problems like limited choice of skins (come on, wordpress has way more than that!) and flood of spam comment not of all which was caught to antispam. And I couldn't upload custom files, only images.
So my advice is: if you feel that you need the power of WordPress get your self a hosting account. Otherwise stick to a free blogging service like blogspot which btw is getting better and better every time I login!
