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Is wordpress.com the official hosting site for the WordPress content management system? Question
I've been told that I should get a WordPress website. Looking into it, there is an open-source content management system available from wordpress.org and hosting available for it from wordpress.com. However, there are also a lot of other hosting providers that will install WordPress. The wordpress.org website lists several of them after wordpress.com.
Is wordpress.com the "official" wordpress host that everybody uses, or are there good reasons to go with a third party hosting solution for a WordPress website?
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Most WordPress sites that I know of are hosted on other servers. Any reasonable LAMP server, which includes most typical low-cost web hosting services, can host WordPress. Many web hosts include "one-click" (though really not quite a single click - you have to enter a bunch of parameters - but very simple) WordPress installation processes. Which effectively means that if any of the following apply:
- You are willing to pay a nominal amount to have full control over your site ("real" hosting can cost as little as $5 or so per month)
- You require your own domain name
- You need more than 1 GB of storage (that's all the free WordPress.com includes)
- You need to run applications on the server besides WordPress
then you should consider hosting somewhere other than WordPress.com. WordPress.com does offer paid hosting plans including your own domain, currently starting at $4/month, so that is certainly an option, but only one of many different options.
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