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Self Hosted vs WordPress.com Hosting

WordPress.com is an online community of personal blogs hosted by WordPress.com. You simply create an account there, sign in, and whalla! You have a WordPress blog up and running. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, yes and no. On WordPress.com you can only have a personal blog. You cannot use it for commercial purposes unless you are a VIP member, which is an exclusive club with a price to match. You are limited to the templates and plugins that they provide for use on WordPress.com. You also do not have access to any of the files, so cannot customize your blog nearly as much as you can with a self hosted WordPress site.

A self hosted WordPress site is when you purchase a hosting account and install WordPress there. The limits that WordPress.com have are no longer an issue. You are only limited by your host’s rules, like perhaps no porn.

WordPressBlog101.com (this website) tutorial is for creating a self hosted WordPress website or blog. What does that mean? It means that you aren’t going to have your blog hosted by WordPress.com. You are going to purchase your own hosting account, install WordPress there, and have the freedom of being able to choose any theme or plugin you wish to use. You will also be able to use your site for commercial purposes and even make money with it if you wish.

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