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I don’t know how many of you guys heard of Terapad.com, but it has been there for quite some time (Actually since early last year-operational since September). Terapad is hosted blog platform/solution as well as a CMS. During launch period it used be paid solution for $8/month. But since January 2, 2007 they announced it to be free and added tones of features.

It’s true now days every week we see some CMS or blogging platform make debut, and they are almost the same. You pay and they take care of your blog design, installation and hosting. The limitation of this kind of solution is lack of customization, thus you can not expect it to be unique and not to mention in the long run they are too expensive. But this Terapad, which is now free have some serious unique features to offer you. First of all they offer you generous 2 GB of space and 10 GB of bandwith for free which is a serious deal in today’s market. Full featured WYSIWYG editing, CSS control, and layout control, which means you are in control of looks of your blog. One click integration of non blog features like -forum, static webpage, event calendar, image gallery, job board and as well as paypal enable e-commerce store, do i need to mention that those blend in within you blog design. Aside from that they also offer more than a dozen third party service(Fliker, Feedburner, Google Analytics etc.) integration in your blog, with just a click. As i mentioned it’s CMS too, means you can create traditional webpages too with easy to use editing tools. Not to mention centralize control panel for easy management.

Basically when you signup your blog/web created under Terapad sub-domain (xxxx.terapad.com), but from control panel you may change the location to any other domain or sub-domain you own. Terapad is free but ad-supported (one column), which can be removed by paying $5/month. In addition to removal of ads, they will also add another 10 GB of bandwith. Full review with short tour video will follow in bloggism.net as soon as i mange to get the video file uploaded.

I have seen a lot of free CMS and hosted blog solution, so far none offered so much customization control as well as features. So i guess they worth a try, since you got nothing to loose.