Am I self-hosted?

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  littlechurchknits · Member · Feb 9, 2012 at 4:13 pm

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  Am I or am I not self-hosted? I purchased my domain name from WordPress. I’d like to install google analytics and register my blog with search engines. I’d like to use plug ins. Very confusing. This form does not even allow me to enter my blog url which is NOT pearlstoronto.wordpress.com, but http://www.pearls-toronto.com
  Blog url: http://pearlstoronto.wordpress.com/

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  evarlese · Member · Feb 9, 2012 at 8:00 pm

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  pearls-toronto.com is hosted on WordPress.com, but using our domain mapping upgrade. Mapping a domain to a WordPress.com site doesn’t change where it’s hosted, but the URL that appears when someone visits your site.

  If you want to switch to a self-hosted installation of WordPress, you can still use your custom domain. You would need to update your domain name servers to point pearls-toronto.com to your self-hosted site:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/#update-nameservers

  You can learn more about the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org