We’re fans of self-hosted WordPress since you have the freedom and flexibility to take WordPress to the next level in your blogging efforts.
But, we think that starting on WordPress.com is a great place to start if you’re new to blogging! And when you’re ready to jump out into your own you can now feel great knowing that you’re not going to lose all those posts and Google juice once you make the switch with a new redirect feature built right in!
I love how WordPress loves their bloggers enough to do this because they definitely need to.