How much control do you want? No one can answer for you whether you want more control and your own site. If I can assume based on your comment history that you

How much control do you want? No one can answer for you whether you want more control and your own site. If I can assume based on your comment history that you're focused on Win/C#, perhaps creating one with a C# blogging engine will be most rewarding?[1] If you feel it's a time sink, then you probably want to jump right into writing. In which case the stability and portability of Blogger + domain name + code formatting plugins is probably adequate. 1. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=c%23+blog&as_oq=software+engine+open+source&as_qdr=y https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=c%23+blog&as_oq=sof... (filtered by past year)