I was delighted to hear that my daughter and her best friend will be collaborating on a blog. And, of course, tickled that she asked my advice on where to run it. I noted that Ghost is the new kid on the block, and is much simpler than what WordPress has become. But they want to do it for free, so WordPress it is.

Then she surprised me with this:

I heard it's better if you self-host, so that's what we'll want to do, right? I think self-hosting is good because you don't have the website name in your blog URL. Also, more importantly, I think it's how you ensure that it's actually yours.