Comments on: WordPress: Host it Yourself or Host on WordPress.com

By: Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:54:58 +0000

I think the blog is very nice about to the Word press: Host it Yourself or Host on Word press.com.The list above given is very useful and informative for the users,In this way the peoples can gets a lot of benefits about hosting,Especially for the web hosts.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:57:02 +0000

My first blog was at wordpress.com. With time, I start to make a wish list of thing that I could not do: I wanted to do some quick templates modifications, put my own fav icon . Also I wanted have more controls about my ads. (among other control and monitoring stuff)

So, one day, I decided to start a new test blog on a free web host. I tried severals Free web hosting provider, some of then put ads on my site, other just dont support WP and other have really poor performance or the site become offline too often.

As you can see, This is not an easy task…I spent almost a month looking for a webspace for my own webblog for free.

Until now, the best option I found was at http://www.230mb.com Since this seems to be a new free hosting provider, their servers are not that crowded and my site perform ok.
The front end of the site has no forced ads. (Although, they put some ads on the administrative vista panel, but I can live with that.)

The installation of WP was easier than I could imagine. I use one of the tutorials published by them and in less than 15 minutes I had my plain WP installation running. I’ve been testing it and I love to have a file manager to edit configuration files online.

I’ll start to migrate my site in xmas vacations.

This is my experience, I hope that my words help one of you to take the jump to own hosted wp blog.

Great blog, and thanks for allow me to post on it.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:03:21 +0000

Hosting is fairly simple and relatively cheap these days. It does require a certain commitment and a willingness to learn. Security is the big thing. Some of this is difficult to comprehend and figure out if you are used to those free hosts that do most of this for you. But when everything is all your own it does have its rewards.

By: Tony Thompson

Tony Thompson — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:04:39 +0000

Can you provide your goods and services into the educational sector in your area. if you can and you are willing to offer the schools a discount, you could find your business in front of all the educational establishments in the uk. you also get direct communication with headteachers to update them with your special offers etc

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:23:13 +0000

Aaron, good point about the advertising limitations on WordPress.

subcorpus, I am the wrong one to ask about hosting. I’m using GoDaddy now, and I’m not all that thrilled with them. However, I also can’t find one I like better. I’m starting to think that they all suck

Mike, hosted WordPress is perfect for people who just don’t want to hassle with anything and who just want it to work without any extra effort. Todd & I talked about this quite a bit when he was moving to WordPress a few weeks ago. He went with hosted WordPress for exactly those reasons.

Jarrod, I forget how easy some of the hosting providers make it to install WordPress with one-click installs and other help. I tend to just do it myself, but I’m starting to very seriously look at some plugins and hosting providers that make using WordPress a little easier to install, upgrade, and manage.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:25:13 +0000

Nowadays the web hosts have WordPress built in and its super easy to setup a new blog. My Hostgator account sets up the database for me with a couple clicks of the mouse my entire blog is ready to go.

By: Mike Mathews

Mike Mathews — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:54:45 +0000

Thanks Dawn, you convinced me to stick with WordPress hosting a little longer. There’s lots of advantages to self-hosting, but I like the idea of sticking to my business right and letting someone else take care of the rest.

By: subcorpus

subcorpus — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:48:49 +0000

good article …
would have been nice if you could have included some web host you suggest we check out …
but i guess that would be a whole new post … eh ?
thanks for sharing …

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:12:46 +0000

Another issue (again, depending on the purpose of your blog) is you can’t currently run any sort of advertising on a wordpress.com hosted blog.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:56:25 +0000

Chris and Chris,

Excellent points! I knew if I got the conversation started that I would learn a few new tips, too