The type of blog you will be using can make all the difference in whether you need to use a blog service. If you are a business and you choose the wrong hosting service it can kill your blogging efforts. You need to have all the bells and whistles to achieve your blogs full potential as a viable business endeavor. Some hosting services are free and some charge a nominal licensing fee. The following is a list of hosting services that can get your blog up and running. They are in no particular order and some are free and some are fee-based.
These three blog services are offered by Six Apart, as separate programs and licenses. Six Apart has a strong customer support which can be well worth the cost of any fees.
WordPress is a free service that is a very good and well-known host for blogs. It is a full service system. Two other free sites are t-blog and Blog City. Google owns Blogger which might not be the best choice for businesses but will work fine for personal blogs. Greymatter is a weblog/journal software program that is open source. Xanga has a free and premium version. The premium can cost you from $4 a month to $100 for a lifetime.
Cnet News.com reports that in March of 2005 AOL announced their Red Blogs, a blogging service for teenagers. It allows teenagers and parents to select the level of privacy they want for their online diaries. These private blogs can be kept locked. Those of younger teens, 13 to 15, will be locked from the general public viewing. In their semiprivate blogs, parents must approve the list of people invited to read the journals of younger teenagers. When AOL asked teenagers in a survey who they were more likely to share their feelings with-parents or a blog-parents narrowly won out, 51 percent to 49 percent.
There is a blogging service out there for everyone it would seem so take your time and shop around to find the perfect fit for you and your family.