To start off the blog I’ll talk about the benefits of economy hosting vs self hosting. In the last five years I’ve noticed a huge decline in pricing. What used to cost a ten bucks a month can now be had for a third of that amount.
I’m simply impressed that in under an hour during a lunch break I was able to purchase hosting reserve an address and use the hosting company’s control panel to install WordPress.

The following benefits of economy hosting vs setting up my own in house server,

Cheap pricing, automatic installations, added security of not being part of my local network add well as leaving a computer on 24 hours a day when I’m not working on the site is actually an economic and environmentally friendly decision.

It also provides me with a web sandbox to test new designs before deploying them on a live website.

I went with domain.com for the hosting and as an added benefit saved a little money using hak5.org’s sponsor code.