I've been meaning to launch a Mac focused blog for a couple of months now. The domain was registered and I installed familiar blogging software. The problem is that for some reason I can't get the comment spam module working correctly. This is odd because I've installed and configured it a couple of times before. So, I started considering the idea of using one of the free blogging services. The first one that came to mind was Google's...

Blogger.com

...since it has a track record, I figure Google will be around for a while, and it lets you use Google Adsense. Then, I noticed an option to publish the blog from a user-controller server instead of the blogger server. Although it is probably better to take advantage of Google's vast server farms, the idea interested me and would let me use the domain I already registered and had pointing at my server. The configuration was menu driven and easy. I chose ftp instead of the more secure sftp for the test.

I've never used blogger before. So, I plan on playing around with this self-hosted installation for a while to get a feel for it.