Blogspot is free. Blogspot is out - again.
I know it's free. It's how I started, too, until the 13th outage (or was it the 7th post lost just before "Publish"?) finally made me pony up a few bucks a month for a more professional environment, Powerblogs in my case. I haven't had any trouble with it, though I don't publish a very fancy blog, either, no ads, and not even any pictures.
As I wrote at the time I switched, I was still a very happy Blogspot customer overall. It was free, and easy to set up, and has a number of good templates. It's still just fine for my diet blog, for example, which is really just me talking to myself, really. (Another good weigh-in today!)
Again, it's free. It will be back on the air soon - but not yet I see. I should stop complaining, but it's frustrating when half your blogroll is dead.