Sumit Nangia
from Pune |
Is there any benefit of having a self hosted wordpress blog then having a wordpress.com blog ?
self hosting wordpress
The IndiBlogger forum is now a read-only archive. Every public discussion is still here to read, but new topics and replies are closed.
Replies 1 to 3 of 3
Rumbaho.com
from Hyderabad |
Freedom. But at a price.
Wordpress.com provides free blogging, like blogspot or blogger.
Self hosting costs around 1000 to 1500 per year. Plus you have to manage your own domain, website, software, updates etc. It's mostly just single click but you need to manage stuff. It's easy enough to learn though. I recommend it.
Sujith
from Kerala |
wordpress.com and Blogspot blogs..... Living in a rented house
Selfhosted blogs....Your own house.
Arti
from Mumbai |
Rented house - you dont pay any rent!!
Own house - you pay rent!!!!!
Arti
from Mumbai |
But yeah, self hosted Blogs are better, I too have heard:)
Sujith
from Kerala |
Arti..Not in the form of Payment. You are indirectly paying or promoting their product in many ways. Nothing is "Free" in this virtual world.
Sumit Nangia
from Pune |
Actually i am currently pursuing B.tech. Was learning web development too, thus wanted to know, if it would be beneficial to shift the blog to a self-hosted platform or not.
SubhashChy
from Mumbai |
2 ways,
1. If you have much money to spend, switch to self hosted and pay a hosting company $$, you will be able to play with the PHP code and everything else you want.
2. economical way (I would choose this way,since u r doing B-tech i cannot expect you to be non-techie as well). Install XAMPP and install on your local desktop/laptop, You laptop will turn into a complete host where you can install wordpress or any web app which works on php,mysql,perl,FTP ,apace2 etc. Install WP locally and play with it as much as you want.It's really easy to use once u install it.
SubhashChy
from Mumbai |
2nd way i mean, Let your blog run on Wordpress.com and instead of playing with your real live blog play with the demo or sandbox or test blogs you r running on the local system
Sujith
from Kerala |
For learning you need not to have a self hosted platform. Your own PC is enough. Make a local server then do experiments with all popular CMS platforms. If you want to take it as profession then try to learn PHP, MySql also.