Ok, I’ve been eyeing wp.com for some time now. Frankly, I was getting tired of downloading and installing new releases every few weeks. Of course if I kept up with backups diligently, it wouldn’t be a big mess if a security issue compromised my blog. Lets be serious though, everyone knows how important backups are, but does everyone have a backup plan? Yeah, right. So, I was looking for a hosted service.

Wordpress’s best feature by far is its community. Folks turn out awesome themes and plugins constantly. And every now and then, I tried out some themes and random plugins. I’d always change themes depending on my mood. Finally I decided I needed to find a simple theme that I could be ok with and not want to change a whole lot. Ok, so I needed a hosted service with some simple themes.

I wanted my own domain as well. Wasn’t thrilled at the idea of having boredandblogging.whateverhostedservice.com. That is so 1990’s.

Obviously wp.com does most of these things very well. I use my domain for email and wp.com doesn’t allow for email and the blog to be on the same domain. Of course I could just ditch my email and give WP control of my domain. Umm, no. Using blog.boredandblogging.com isn’t so bad.

The auto-saving of drafts is an awesome feature and the dashboard overall is a nice upgrade to the standard wp installation.

This is my first post using wp.com and I’m thrilled!