Following Google-Blogger's 22 January announcement that blogger will be pulling the plug for websites/blogs published via FTP through blogger, there has been a furore on the internet. Without getting into criticism myself, I am trying to analyze the repercussions on sites using this service. For more details on who's impacted and blogger team's efforts to ease the load, go here . Impacted Websites i.e. those using the FTP publishing feature like www.arbitmba.com , now have two options: Move their Site to Blogger's hosting via the custom domain functionality or Start using a different blog management software like Wordpress.org In both cases you will have to perform a migration activity, but as far I have studied, neither migration is going be any more or any less painful than the other. In both cases some functionalities will have to be recoded. Moving to Blogger Custom Domain Pros Hosting on Google's servers - no hassles of hosting provider Blogger platform for