John Richardson Back Online
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 4 months ago
In the past two days I have registered the domain www.onlygunsandmoney.com and have registered an account with WordPress. I have looked at dozens of WordPress themes. I will be revamping the look and feel of my blog and it will be migrated to WordPress. Where I actually host it is up in the air for the moment. There is nothing like a near tragedy to spur one into action!
Good. You need to get off of BlogSpot. Google can take you down at any time. The point is that you don’t own your content – Google does.
As for WordPress, while I have their formatting used for this website, it isn’t hosted on WordPress. They could take you down any time too.
This blog could be taken down, and my oldest son could have it back up within a day, running on his own servers if necessary. I own the content, I own the comments, and if necessary one day, I’ll own the server to run it.
I recommend you do the same John.
On August 13, 2019 at 9:35 pm, JoeFour said:
Good advice to own his own server. I know of at least two blogs that used WordPress and were taken down with no notice whatsoever.
On August 15, 2019 at 8:06 am, John Taylor said:
I find BlueHost to be an acceptable service *at present*. One’s own server is the ideal platform, though even that level of independence is still vulnerable to suppression from big-tech search engines and the like.