Should I get my own website?

[Maikel]

If you ask me getting a domain and webhosting is the best invest you could make. I would always go for a self hosted site (I use WordPress) over a remotely hosted blog, here's why:

- The domain name: instead of yourdomain.wordpress.com it's yourdomain.com which looks way more professional
- Less risk, with hosting your website on a platform like WordPress you are at risk of getting terminated when your content against the ToS. This won't happen often but it has happened before to people.
- Plugins!!: Great feature that self hosted WordPress blogs have. There are literally thousands of them out there and they can do about anything to help your website, very very powerful.

Hope that helps,
Maikel Michiels