So at work I do a lot of research. People ask me to build products that are pretty much already built. Like a photo gallery, video upload, and blog. These are great work tools, and for a personal site, they really make sense.

I have a hosting account, that account has a blog and photo gallery. It also has the option to add video upload and Bulletin Board. All these things I can get online for free. I could use WordPress for my blog, host my images and photos on Flickr or Picasa, upload videos to YouTube or blip.tv.

So what am I doing with a hosting account? Well, I am concerned with who owns the content once I upload it. If I post my videos to YouTube, and the servers crash (very unlikely) where does it go. Who can I blame? Of course I keep backups of everything, but anything can happen.

So should I move everything to these free services? I already started moving my images to Picasa, I will move my blog to WordPress later this week, and I don’t have any videos – so no worries about that.