I just figured out that you can use blogger.com as your webhost. The idea is to buy a domain name (islesv.net in my case) and use different blogs on Blogspot for your different interests (example: this one is at http://tech.islesv.net/ which is an alias for http://islestech.blogspot.com/ while http://blog.islesv.net/ , my teaching blog, is an alias for http://islesv.blogspot.com/ )
Of course I've seen a lot of other people already using Blogger.com as their (free) webhost and just paying for the domain name, e.g. Cong. Pablo John Garcia's onion-skinned.com
The advantages are many. There is the aspect of security: you can be assured that your data is protected by the hardware Google, Inc. owns. Google Search also loves content on Blogspot. (I am not saying that there is preferential treatment for material found at Blogspot, but experience showed me that if you want something to be indexed quickly by Google, post it on a Blogger.com-hosted site and not elsewhere. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the Google bot and the Blogger files live, if not on the same cluster of servers, at least in the same physical location. Am I making any sense here? :))
EDIT: You can even have a front page for the blog.
