Buy a domain or use a subdomain?

United States
September 17, 2007 6:29pm CST
I want to create my own website to promote my blogs and articles on Associated Content. I also want to move my Wordpress blog onto my own site so I have more freedom with it. However, my question to everyone is should I go ahead and purchase my own domain name and pay each year or stick with the free subdomains and hosting? I'm not really looking to make anything other than a little from Adsense on the site itself. Just something to call my own little piece of the web. I used Ueuo.com for a little bit, but didn't keep it updated, so finally cancelled the account. Any suggestions would be great!
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@youless (112507)
• Guangzhou, China
18 Sep 07
Or couse buying a domain name is better because it's easier for others to remember. I have my own website with the domain name and it doesn't cost me much for the domain name. I will pay for some fee for the web space.
@re08dz (1941)
• Australia
18 Sep 07
For me personally the best option is to get your own domain name (it can be a generic name) then find a host that allows you multiple/unlimited sub-domains etc - that way you can set up a variety of sites or blogs all under one host/main domain name but on many different topics etc. eg - cats.abc.com, dogs.abc.com etc etc You can get a domain name for under say $5 a year and the hosting from say $6-10 a month etc
• Italy
18 Sep 07
The choice depends from what you want to make and as you want to make it. If you want to have professional website and whose name can be appropriated to the contents that will insert or to the personality that you want to demonstrate you then it convene to buy a name of domain. The expense is not excessive, with 50 dollars per year you can maintain domain and web the space in order to accommodate your pages. If the contents are enough interesting the moneies expenses them recoveries with the publicity inserted in the website. A word to part then deserves the choice of web the space: only the domain not enough if you do not have the space n order to publish the website. In your case, considered that you want to use wordpress or however you want to create a blog, you have need beyond to the space, php and a database. Normally it is difficult to find supplying of web free space with php and database and sufficient space and when it finds to them fills up you the publicity pages. Therefore also you council to buy these services together to the name of domain here. If then you want however to opt for subdomain and the free space you council to visit 100webspace.com that it offers free of charge subdomai web space, php and database. I use it for situated the little important and I find ababstanza to it good also because they give to you of the optimal instruments of management and puts little publicity in your pages: only a banner little invasive up. I hope to have given good councils to you and I augur you good job.