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Hosting your website with Wordpress?

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 bog & not just any website ] for free, why do people use other paid hosting agencies. Anways 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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1. Wordpress is a GREAT free website host. It has great plugins and some really good templates. My dad uses it for professional uses for the U.S. government. I have also designed my boyscout web site. Here is a free website: troop394.wordpress.com Here is a paid wordpress website: podfeet.com When you make a website with wordpress, you have to have something like this. yourwebsitename.wordpress.com
2. I have used Wordpress and it is a really easy and powerful tool. A lot the great techs innovation have been open sourced Firefox, Linux, Wordpress, wikipedia etc. Wordpress blogs also are SEO friendly. The only long term problem I foresee is if Wordpress one day shuts down the information would be lost. Of course you probably could export it but it would be a real pain.
3. 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. -
4. You should definately get paid hosting, there are cheap web hosts that offer Wordpress, like Fredhost, its only $3.95 monthly or even cheaper if you pay quarterly
5. You could use Wordpress.com for your blog, and it would work great up to a point that you need to tweak something, install some nice theme you found on some site or install some plugin that you need. At that point you would have to buy hosting and move your blog to hosted Wordpress. So basically, the free Wordpress Cons: They provide 70+ themes, but you cannot run a custom theme You can’t change the PHP code behind your blog You can’t upload plugins
6. I don't recommend choosing a free hosting for your business website. The free themes they provide are not really that great, there are some beautiful free themes you can find everywhere but you can't use them with free Wordpress. And as you start building your website you'll find out that for example you need to change just one line of PHP to achieve something, or to change a couple of things to make it not look like a blog, or that you really like some plugin and you want to install it on your website, but you won't be able to do any of that with a free wordpress. There are some great paid hosting offers http://www.webhostingtable.com/ Powweb has the best offer right now. It's on a 50% sale - $3.88/month ($46.56/year), and you get a free domain from them. They include easy, one click install of Wordpress (from their control panel).
7. You need a web host supporting blog/wordpress. Take a look at: http://www.threehosts.com/blog http://www.threehosts.com/build Hope this helps.