Moveable Type Blog Conversion - yes? no?

This is an open question to anyone who might want to give advice or add their two cents.

I am considering redoing my blog using Moveable Type. I don't think there would be much noticieable change to a reader since Moveable Type and Typepad are really pretty much the same, but I would have more flexibility and could install at my own isp with my own domain name without having to use a pointer as I do now. I think I would have a little more creative flexibilty built in and as far as I can see, the costs to me on a monthly basis would be about the same and might even save me a dollar or two.

I am interested in comments from anyone who now uses Moveable Type and does their own installing or programming, but who maybe like me, is self taught and therefore need to "keep it simple."  Also anyone who has made this switch, pros and cons?

If I do this, it will be in the upcoming week. I made a switch from Bravenet and their brave.blog software to Typepad already so I know it is a big job, however I think this would be easier as Typepad has an export feature.

I had planned the upcoming week to be a light one as far as blog entries because I've been called for Jury Duty.

All comments and advice on this move gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

[Violence Worker]

I'm interested in doing the same thing. I'm going to follow this thread and posit it on my blog as well.

VW

[christa]

I've used MT earlier and I actually prefer Wordpress, mostly because it is a lot easier to modify the layout if you would want to. And I also had a lot of other problems with MT. Maybe it's better today than it was back then, but I'm sure the backend of it is the same.

[Ferdy]

The new Movable Type 3.2 is very good. It fixes a lot of the problems with spam trackbacks and comments.

Some hosts will refuse to allow Movable Type, so you should check to be sure.

The biggest advantage to having your own domain is that your incoming trackback throttling problems are not so severe. When we are hosting a carnival and we see a Typepad or Haloscan trackback address, Bruce always cringes because nine times out of ten we'll get a throttle error when we post the article.