Buy yourself a domain and ill host it for free and take care of the setup for you, or I can let you use a subdomain of either demonsdesire.org or reprion.net. Domains are pretty cheap these days.

Personally recommend buying your own domain. They're dead useful.

 

I was planning to use Ghost (maybe WP, but probably Ghost), buy a domain from Ghandi (there was some legal thing with your information?), and host it with either Ghost (if using Ghost) or something else (Bluehost?) if using WP (I'd use the .org version, but again leaning towards Ghost).

I wish I could better remember why I picked all that.

 

Wordpress can be installed seperately on any domain.

 

You can also buy your domain and point it at a WordPress.com blog if you don't want to have to pay for hosting. About to go to bed but I can do a write-up for you tomorrow and cover all your options.

 

Ah ha! I found the bit of information that made me think Gandi was the way to go for domain names. But now that I've found it, those of you who know more than I do can tell me how much BS it is.

http://www.gandi.net/domain/whois/

Basically it's the whois policy. All the other registrars I read about way back when had (1) no privacy protection, so a whois gave all of your information out, (2) full privacy, where they listed themselves on the whois, which is an issue because legally that apparently makes them the owner and not you, or (3) both/either.

Gandi lists your name on whois, but hides your contact information and tells any curious folks to contact them if the information is needed. I thought that sounded good.

Now I don't expect anything like any of that to ever be an issue, since I'm not anticipating stalkers or anything illegal, but since I didn't see any advantages to the other options I decided to go with it.

 

Yeah, had the intention of writing it up but just started at a new job and been pretty busy. Off to a friend's birthday party, but I'll get something written down tomorrow. Don't be afraid to message me if it looks like I've forgotten.

 

How technical are you willing to go? There are some really excellent static blog generators out there that work with GitHub.com (a code repository service), http://jekyllrb.com/ among them. There's something built on top of Jekyll called Octopress that's a premade blog on top of Jekyll. You write posts as Markdown documents and push them to GitHub, it generates static pages that load incredibly fast. The flipside of this is that you don't get a lot of the fancy features of Wordpress, not that you need them.