does wordpress.com premium upgrade offer own host and domain?

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  craiggoldie · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 5:19 pm

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  the title says it all really… I want to get my own hosted space. Do I need to get a host/domain elsewhere then download wordpress.org’s wordpress client.. OR if I want to keep my content intact can I just upgrade to premium with my existing site and effectively achieve the same thing?

  What are the pros and cons of each option?

  Thanks,

  Craig

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  pmciano · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 8:59 pm

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  @craiggoldie

  Your site is already freely hosted at salientwhy.wordpress.com.

  If you’d like to use a custom domain with your site, you can add one here:

  https://salientwhy.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains

  Register a New Domain

  If you’ve already registered a domain elsewhere, use these instructions, instead:

  Map an Existing Domain

  Let us know if you have any more questions :-)

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  craiggoldie · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 3:53 pm

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  Hi there,

  I set up a new domain and have successfully exported my content from my wordpress.com website to it. However, I also did not want to lose the traffic I have built up (about 15 views/day)! So I set up a redirect to the new domain Analyze6.comsite for the £9 fee.

  However, after setting this up it looks like my traffic has stopped dead today (0 views)!! I hope I have not lost the traffic. I went into support and attempted to temporarily disable the redirect–but am afraid I may have somehow caused some irreparable damage. It appears as though when setting up the redirect my URL for the original WP.com account changes to the one I am trying to redirect to.

  Can you advise–how do I do this without hurting traffic. I don’t want to mess this up because my site has been gaining traffic slowly but had really built up in the last year or so.

  Thanks,

  Craig

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  pmciano · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 6:29 pm

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  @craiggoldie

  I can see your redirect, but you still need to reactivate it to make it salientwhy.wordpress.com’s Primary Domain:

  https://salientwhy.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains

  Afterwards, salientwhy.wordpress.com will direct visitors to analyze6.com/site/, which, as far as I understand, is what you’re trying to accomplish.

  Also, please clear your browser’s cache after you make the change:

  Solve Common Browser Issues

  If you are still having a problem, let me know, and we can take the next troubleshooting step, once I get more feedback.

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  craiggoldie · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 7:22 pm

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  Hi, thanks for you help. I think it is working now… will give it a couple of days to see if the traffic is coming through. Just a lot of new things to try and pick up with all this!

  craig

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  pmciano · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 7:28 pm

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  @craiggoldie

  You’re welcome! We’re glad to help.

  If things are not right after a day or two, let us know, and we will investigate the problem until it’s resolved.