Open for business first in 2003, Wordpress differs in many ways from other blogging tools. The other tools discussed are known as 3rd party tools. This means that any blog created through those tools will have a URL that includes the company name. The blog is required to reside on certain servers. Wordpress takes a different approach. It is a standalone program avaliable for download from Wordpress.org that creates blogs, but does not host them, providing the user with the ultimate creative license. Wordpress users provide their own servers. This creates the possibility of a blog residing at a domain name of your choice. To appeal to all audiences, however, Wordpress also started a 3rd party blogging tool at Wordpress.com. Wordpress has currently the most users for a self-hosted blogging site--tens of thousands according to the creators of the product.