Hosting Your Website With WordPress
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Hi, I was planning to develop a website for my own small company which markets Herbal Products.
Initially I was planning on designing it on my own, getting a domain name and then hosting it with an external web hosting company.
However if I do the same with wordpress, I can get loads of free templates and I can host it for free. As i hardly need any Web space.
All I have to do is get a domain name and map it to this wordpress address.
Is it really that easy?? If it was why would anybody pay a hosting company. I know the website might look like a blog but I think I can customize it to look like a normal website.
Also when wordpress hosts your blog [ I mean the usual blog & not just any website ] for free, why do people use other paid hosting agencies. Anyways you get to do the exact same stuff, with or without paying.
PS: I am not talking about the paid features from wordpress, but to host free features you get from wordpress from an external agency?
Thanks.
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The main reason for paying for your web hosting is because you have control of your site. When you host for free, you are limited at what you are able to do.You do not get the exact same stuff. With a paid hosting account, you truly get loads of tools to work with, just with the hosting alone.
A free hosting may offer "loads" of templates – and you’re limited to using only these, but I have a choice of thousands of templates because I can install what *I* choose and want. I can also edit them, put advertising on them, any number of things. I can also edit the WordPress software if I want, and add whatever plugins I want to it – instead of having a small selection of widgets to choose from. There are thousands of plugins and templates available, all for free. All I need to do is install it and make it look the way I want.
Another bonus to paying for your hosting is bandwidth. Free hosting gives you very limited bandwidth – which may be fine if you’re just starting out, but if you do any advertising for your business and you get a lot of hits, which causes you to exceed your bandwidth, all your potential customers may see is a message like this:
"This user has exceeded their bandwidth for the day" – your site is down for the rest of the day and your potential customers go find another company.
A starter hosting package will give you enough bandwidth to avoid this kind of message. Hostgator’s cheapest package gives you everything you could ever want and more for around 5 bucks a month.
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You cannot use WordPress.com for commercial sites. It’s in violation of their terms of service. I’ve had every single one of my WordPress.com blogs suspended because of it. NO amount of begging and pleading will get them back. You will lose everything.
Buy your own domain name and get some reliable, inexpensive web hosting. I recommend hosting with cPanel control panel, but vDeck is a pretty good second choice. Both have 1-click WordPress installation. Software installations are easy. cPanel uses Fantastico and vDeck uses InstallCentral. You’ll see them when you log into your hosting account.
For cheap domain names, I recommend NameCheap. Use the coupon codes found there for extra savings.
For affordable web hosing, I recommend http://BestCheapAffordableWebHosting.com There are hosting plans as little as $2.49/month.