Can I cancel my blue host service and still keep my domain name and blog?
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I have a wordpress.com site. Right now I have bluehost. I am not wanting to pay for the bluehost service any longer but am not sure how canceling it will affect my blog. Could you help me with this? Thank you.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi robinstackpole,
You can migrate your self-hosted website to WordPress.com. In order to use your existing custom domain, you require any of the paid plans.
https://wordpress.com/pricing/You can either transfer your domain registration to WordPress.com or you can simply map it.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/incoming-domain-transfer/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/If we talk about the design, there are many WordPress.com themes you can choose from.
https://wordpress.com/themesThis step by step guide will help you have an idea.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/view-all/ -
Is it possible that I could already have a free wordpress.com site? When I go under wordpress.com my site comes up and it has my plan listed as free.
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Yes, as you have a WordPress.com account, you may have a website running on a free plan.
Check it by clicking on My Sites from the top-left corner of the browser and choose to Switch Site where you can see all the connected website along with your self-hosted website.
You can upgrade your free plan to migrate your website.
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Hi there,
The site in your account is not a WordPress.com site, no. That site is listed in your WordPress.com account because you have it connected here via the Jetpack plugin, but your site itself is hosted on Bluehost’s servers.
To move that site to us on WordPress.com, first create a new free site at https://wordpress.com/start/site/
Then follow the last link Ravi posted above to migrate your content to this new site. Leave switching the domain to us until last – once you do that the Bluehost site will go offline, and you won’t be able to export and import from it any more, so you should only do that step once all your content is with us.
Once your content has been migrated and your domain transferred, it will be safe to cancel your Bluehost account.
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