RE: @allaboutpastries: The Dreaded 'Science'....I Know, You Shouldn't 'Bore' People Who You Want to Read and Upvote Your Posts..This is Interesting Though, And So Useful! Plus, More Posts You Might Have Missed.

Hard to say, I'm not too popular myself. I'm pretty much exploring Steemit at the moment and I am not expecting a spectacular success anytime soon - taken into account how much I achieved with the regular blog, and it's been 10 months so far, I suspect it will still take some time to get things rolling. Also, I don't want to just duplicate content here and there. For yeast water I will form a compilation from the posts on Steemit to put on the blog. I may keep doing things like that.
It's nice and comforting to get a lot of attention, but then I wouldn't like my posts to become attention magnets in fear they would turn into low quality content.

For the blog I'm using Wordpress and am renting a server which I administer myself. It's a bit of work, but also gives some flexibility and a chance to learn more (I'm in computer business).