If you're going with self-hosted Wordpress, I'd also recommend putting it on a s...

defen on July 20, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 B...

If you're going with self-hosted Wordpress, I'd also recommend putting it on a separate machine and ideally on a separate network from your other machines, so that they aren't compromised when your blog gets hacked.