I've done both, and I would strongly recommend putting your personal stuff in the cloud. It is one of the most frustrating things in the world when you can't wo

I've done both, and I would strongly recommend putting your personal stuff in the cloud. It is one of the most frustrating things in the world when you can't work on any of your actual paying work, because you have to spend the entire day getting your personal site back online after an unexpected spike crashed it. The only caveat is to absolutely make sure that wherever you host your site, you can set your own URL. That is the only way to ensure maximum flexibility so that you can later self-host or move all your info (and google juice) to another cloud service. If you build all your reputation on mysite.posterous.com, then so help you. EDIT: I'm not picking on Posterous, just saying if you're going to put your blog there or anywhere, use your own domain! If you don't, you cannot undo that later after you've built a reputation and tons of backlinks pointing to their domain.