Help With Hosting and my Blog

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  gdjoel · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 3:52 am

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  Alright so I joined up on WordPress a couple days ago, and decided to set it up as a website. I went ahead last night, and purchased a domain from WordPress.

  Afterward the next day (today) after talking to a couple people I went ahead and purchased hosting from GoDaddy. It’s all been activated, but I don’t really know what to do next.

  I hate to be THAT guy that needs help with this kind of thing, but I am completely clueless about this kind of thing. What is DNS? How do I link my domain from wordpress to godaddy and make everything work?

  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 4:27 am

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  Sounds like you’re dealing with two separate systems. WordPress.com is a blog host that’s free. You sign up here and you get a free blog and you don’t need to do anything else. http://thejcave.wordpress.com/ is your free blog.

  Hosting from Godaddy is totally separate. If you read this, it might clarify:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 4:33 am

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  ~~ raincoaster
  G’evening :)

  @gdjoel
  Please see this thread https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/godaddy-hosting-wordpresscom-dashboard?replies=5

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  gdjoel · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 5:52 am

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  I read up on the thread, timethief, but all tutorials and faqs assume you understand most of the terms and how these things work. I don’t. Is there some sort of tutorial on exactly how to set this up at all?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 7:21 am

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  If you do not understand the terms, and have no clue what it takes to self-host a site, I would suggest that you are not ready and that you need to do more research before you head down this road.

  With a self-hosted site, you have to do all the installations and configurations, all upgrades, all backups and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, such as you install a bad plugin that breaks your blog, you have to figure it out and fix it.

  There are some basic getting started and installation guides over at http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page . Past that, do some googling for tutorials and such.

  You might also consider paying wordpress.COM to transfer and set up your blog for you. They offer a new “guided transfer” service for $99 and it will get you up and running. You still have to know how to upgrade, troubleshoot and backup your entire site, including the database though.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/