Bought Premium service and don't see the differents

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  crimeatravel1001 · Member · May 16, 2014 at 12:52 pm

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  Hi,
  I bought premium service for one of my blogs and don’t see any changes on my dashbord. It should be more options available as I understand? Could you please point for me what I can achieve now with the premium service? Also is hosting included in my premium service? Is worldpress provide the hosting?

  Thanks

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 16, 2014 at 5:54 pm

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  Hi there,

  Hosting at WordPress.com is free for everyone — you’re welcome to have a blog hosted here without any upgrades at all. :) With WordPress.com Premium, you get the following upgrades:

  • Domain Name & Mapping
  • Space Upgrade
  • No Ads
  • Custom Design
  • VideoPress

  You can read about each of those upgrades at the links above. If you have any questions about that, please let me know! :)

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  crimeatravel1001 · Member · May 16, 2014 at 9:19 pm

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  Thank you very much for your reply! I still have problems.
  I tried to change my website address from traveltocrimeanseadotcom.wordpress.com into traveltocrimeansea.com
  And the system is not letting me.
  Another thing, I don’t understand: you said Hosting at WordPress.com is free for everyone, but I read on the Forum that I need to find hosting separately. I am confused! Do I have hosting now or do I need to find it? When I looked at Bluehost and others, they will give me a new domain and ect. But I want my existing blog to work at full potential.

  And why cant I change my website address to my own without dotcom.wordpress.com? Could somebody look at my account and help me please?

  Thank you very much in advance

  Maria

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 16, 2014 at 9:27 pm

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  Hi Maria,

  I tried to change my website address from traveltocrimeanseadotcom.wordpress.com into traveltocrimeansea.com
  And the system is not letting me.

  Your custom domain is already working on your site here: http://traveltocrimeansea.com/

  Is that domain working for you? If you’re not able to see your site there, please let me know.

  Another thing, I don’t understand: you said Hosting at WordPress.com is free for everyone, but I read on the Forum that I need to find hosting separately. I am confused! Do I have hosting now or do I need to find it?

  You don’t need to find hosting — you already have it here at WordPress.com. That’s different from using the open source software you can download from WordPress.org, which requires separate hosting. We have more about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here: WordPress.com and WordPress.org

  And why cant I change my website address to my own without dotcom.wordpress.com? Could somebody look at my account and help me please?

  The address traveltocrimeanseadotcom.wordpress.com is the free WordPress.com address that we use behind the scenes (for example, on your dashboard) to make sure that nothing happens to your site’s content even if you stop using your custom domain. However, visitors to your site only see your custom domain traveltocrimeansea.com.

  If you’d like, you can change that dotcom.wordpress.com address with this guide: Changing a Blog Address

  However, keep in mind that only you see that address, so changing it will only change what you see in your site’s dashboard. It won’t change what visitors see when they go to your site.

  Please let me know if you have any other questions about that! :)

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  crimeatravel1001 · Member · May 16, 2014 at 9:32 pm

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  Thank you very much! I think I understand now how it works :)
  Thanks a lot!
  Maria

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 16, 2014 at 9:36 pm

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  You’re very welcome, Maria. :) I’m glad I could help! If you have any other questions, please let us know.