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Susan

Thanks for the comments, manekineko. Answers to your questions deserve a blog post all their own.

manekineko

Do these free services not allow database backups?

Paid services can lose your data too - it is not as if only the free ones are guilty of this.

Maybe the key is in backing up your post database regardless of what platform you use?

Also I don't agree with the "not having a domain name makes you less credible" thing at all - everyone knows Post Secret, it's consistantly one of the most popular blogs period, has resulted in a book deal and as far as I know does not have its own domain and uses a Blogspot account.

Carol Wilkerson

As I read through your post, I was mentally calculating just how much of my blogger site was backed up, and so thankful that I have at least my paid site on typepad. Hopefully, they won't "poof" me into the bloggisphere before my trial period is over. I am going to go back up everything right now. Beep, beep, beep....

Rick

Amen to that, Susan! In addition, back up your blog to your computer or another server. Even paid services have problems. Backing up is that one extra bit of insurance to make sure you don't lose everything if something happens.

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