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There's self-install WordPress.org and hosted WordPress.com. I am not aware of self-install Tumblr blog.

The post is comparing Tumblr with self-install WordPress.org.

About hosting: Replace Tumblr with WordPress.com

When you use WordPress.com, you don’t have to worry about hosting. They take care of it.

Edit: OS X Lion sometimes auto-corrects Tumblr with Tumbler.

True, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) if you're using a Wordpress.com blog you have to have a URL of the format yourblog.wordpress.com, right? Whereas if you want to go to your own domain you need to self-host. But you could set up a domain you own to resolve to a Tumblr blog that's hosted by Tumblr.

There's definitely room for both platforms in different scenarios. I run a self-hosted Wordpress blog that's fairly complicated and high-traffic, and that's the right choice for that platform. But I'm probably going to start a more stripped-down personal blog soon and Tumblr seems like the way to go for that.

You can have a custom domain with Wordpress.com hosted blogs, but you have to pay something for it. Maybe $10/year...

easp got that right.

You can have free (insertsomethinghere).WordPress.com blog. Then you can upgrade for custom domain, increased storage, VideoPress, custom theme/design, etc. for a fee-per-service.

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