Blogging2.0

In order to compete with younger, newer web companies like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft has launch a new line of Live products/services along with its new Vista operating system. There is Live Search, Live Spaces, Live Messenger, Live Mail and so on. What may not be as widely known is MSN Live Hosting. That's right, Microsoft also has a hosting service. What's more? Microsoft offers 500mb disk space/bandwidth and a domain name! This is an excellent opportunity for many bloggers to get their own domain name and start blogging. For reasons why you should pick a domain name and stick with it, just read this article entry.

Ironically, I first found out about Live Hosting from an advertisement in original MSN Hotmail - Live Mail does not have advertising. This should be different from free webhosting offered by other large web companies such as Geocity and Yahoo. Live Hosting should be very similar if not exactly like Yahoo Small Business rather than GeoCity - Microsoft has Live Space for that. The disk space and bandwidth plus a free domain name shows that Live Hosting is actual hosting. The signup process is more complicated than signing up for MySpace and there are options to upgrade to paid hosting.

I guess what I'm trying to say above is that Live Hosting should be a reliable webhost even though I have no experiences to back that up. So, I am very interested to hear from someone who decides to take the opportunity and check it out after this post or someone who has already signed up. If you find Live Hosting excellent or totally bunkers just email me at c_stavanger [at] hotmail [dot] com or you can always drop by and post at Blogcrowds.com.

Thanks!

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