I started blogging in May, 2003, with a blogspot-hosted blog before eventually moving it Policyguy.com. Blogger and FTP did the trick.
Then Google bought Blogger, which was fine–until Google announced that they were discontinuing support for the method I was using to publish. Six-plus years of blogging, kerput.
So it became time to move to the PolicyGuy blog, 2.0, driven by WordPress.