If you know a friend of yours with a website (like mine. http://evilwoobie.com), it’s easy enough to let them host your blog, if their space will allow it. Hopefully, it will be free.

In essence, you blog will be a subdomain of the main website, and is thus also subject to the ups and downs of the site parent. Example, your friend’s hosting service provider has server problems, the main site and all of the subdomains experience all these at the same time.

Make sure your friend pays his hosting dues. But being a good friend and a subdomain owner, I suggest you pitch in on his/her investment. The usual payment cycle in most of the providers I’ve viewed is annually. Do ask your friend if he plans on renewing his contract with the provider or will pay the next cycle of the domain name. If he doesn’t, your beautiful blog will disappear.

My blog http://woobie.pinoygaming.net is being hosted by pinoygaming. That’s another tip. It’s usually nice to blend the overall genre of your blog with that of your host. In my case, I’m a gamer, and that blog mostly talks about my gaming. So the main domain’s name “pinoygaming.com” fits, and gives surfers an idea on what my blog will be about.

This is a nice way to move out of the generic blog host options, such as yourname.blogspot.com. It will give you more identity, without the nitty-gritty of managing your own site. It helps if you maintain a very good relationship with the administrator of the main site, as your blog’s health will depend on that.

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