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Web Hosts for Blogging

Web hosts normally specialize in serving Web sites at registered domains owned by the Webmasters of those sites. For example, you might register and purchase the www.sleepyzzzz.com domain, and then build a Web site located at that URL. A Web host would store the site pages on its computer and display them to people who visit www.sleepyzzzz.com.

Some Web hosts attract blogging customers by preinstalling powerful blog programs such as Movable Type and WordPress, so the users don’t have to wrestle with difficult installations. These packages, paid by the month or year, represent the most expensive way to blog, but you get a lot for your money: powerful blog software perfectly installed and ready to use.

A blog program called Radio UserLand is a different and, in this book, unique type of blogging solution. Radio UserLand does require installation by the user, but it’s a desktop installation, not a Web server installation. Installing Radio UserLand is on the same technical level as installing a new instant messaging program, a new browser, or a new productivity application on your computer. Once installed, you blog by typing entries into the program, which then uploads them to Radio UserLand’s server and provides the usual content management functions of blog software.