what if blogspot goes out of business?

[storyofbing]

Who knows if it may ever happen? It is a free service with so many users. It doesn't make revenue sense to give so much support to a system unless they earn from it. I suspect they will eventually take the Wordpress route and start charging for various stuff.

I used blogspot for a few years, switched to WP and am now fully self hosted.

[auronic]

I'm quite sure it's safe to use blogspot for atleast 5 more years.
And if you haven't got your own website by then, chances are your blog is not worth spending time on x'D

[teatreebergamot]

Google arn't going to shut down blogger any time soon. But if they did, they'd give people notice so they could transfer their material elsewhere.

Yahoo closed Geocities last year and they gave all users plenty of time to shift their stuff

[Laughing Ninja]

How does one go about switching hosts? Backing up posts?

[stupidgenius]

They might go to a pay format in the future but I certainly wouldnt think they would completely shut down. At least not anytime soon. They would lose a lot of adsense revenues. But then again it is google. The adsense revenues from blogspot are pennies compared to what they make on a daily basis.