Why use self-hosting for your WordPress blog?
One of the greatest features of WordPress, the world’s most popular blogging content managment system (CMS), is the option to host your blog for free at WordPress.org.
For many bloggers, this option is quite viable, but for many others free hosting with WordPress.org can severly limit the blogging experience
Below is a list of drawbacks for hosting your blog at WordPress.org.
- No unique domain name. Instead you are able to choose a WordPress.org subdomain.
- No ability to place ads in your site. WordPress states this in their support section.
- No easy FTP access, making it more difficult to upload files to your blog directory.
- No Automated, Scraper or Affiliate blogs. WordPress.org expresses a great disdain for these types of blogs and reserves the right to drop them.
- No Search Engine Optimization blogs. Meaning blogs that go wild with SEO tactics are frowned upon, and run the risk of being dropped.
- No Warez posting on your blog. Quite a drawback if you are into digital pirating.
In short, it’s best not to host your blog with WordPress.org if you are looking to blog for money. Installing WordPress on your own domain is incredibly easy and with the highly affordable price of domains and hosting, there should be nothing stopping the commited blogger from taking that route. However, free hosting at WordPress.org addresses basic blogging needs, and is great for people that are just looking to get a feel for blogging.
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