Our blog has been up for about eight months now, using Google's Blogger software. (Usual disclaimer: I'm not connected with Google, am not being paid, etc.) Our experience on the whole has been very positive. It's generally been easy to use and the results look good, if I say so myself. Best of all, it's free. I don't have a tip jar because I'm not spending anything on this blog, and I knew from the start I didn't want ads. They make the pages load much slower, they're tacky and often offensive, you have no control over the content, etc.
I would recommend Google to anyone who wants to try blogging, at least for a limited-use application like this. Of course, you don't have your own domain name. Bandwidth might be a problem if you're expecting higher volumes of traffic, which we're not. We're now averaging about 50 hits per day, and have occasional spikes over 100, but I haven't heard any complaints or experienced problems with slow loading.
The blogspot site has some pretty good help available, and there's also an online help group so you can get advice from others with similar problems. That's been quite useful a couple of times.
So my advice to anyone who’s thought about blogging is to go ahead and try it. You have nothing to lose!
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