"Self hosting" mainly because you get more freedom with it. You have to pay more just to gain the ability to do more in Wordpress.com while you can p...

Manually to my computer. If I really wanted to, I could set up another server and have nightly backups made and automatically sent to another server, ...

Why did you go with GoDaddy? I love NameCheap. I've only ever had one issue with them but it was quickly resolved in a life chat session. Whenever ...

- Forum signatures. - Ask to write content for other websites and include your link. - Exchange links with other websites (eg. affiliate). - ...

I might be a little bias since I've used Wordpress more, but it's Wordpress for me too. I've used Joomla one or three times, but not a lot. I did not ...