Typepad and Wordpress are much more complicated and feature rich blog / website programming platforms that are best left to experts and folks who answered , “ I am not afraid of hosting , creating , and maintaining a website myself .”
UNIQUE NAME FORWARDING
If you chose to purchase a unique website address name or already own a unique website name through a registrar company - and I own loads of website names with a registrar - you can still create a website with a different website hosting provider or create a blog and point your unique name to the newly built website or blog . And … this domain mapping service is FREE !
Just search for and follow the directions in the HELP section of the website hosting or blog provider to effect the forward . Or , you may make a phone call to your website registrar company once your new hosted or blog site is set up , and the registrar ’ s technical support service folks will walk you through pointing your unique website address to your new site .
CREATE A WEBSITE ARCHIVE
In the past , I have personally experienced the problem of having set up an entire website on a hosting service , and had that hosting service suddenly and without warning take down its computer systems and shut its doors ! My educated recommendation to you , then , is that after your new website or blog is created , use the print function of your computer to print off and / or save as . pdf files all of the pages of