How can I "change" my blog to a different domain and hosting?

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  wordsinthebucket · Member · Sep 5, 2014 at 2:43 pm

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  Hello everyone.

  I just bought a domain and a hosting with a different hosting service than WordPress. I successfully exported my blog and everything is ok. The problem is that now I have two copies of an identique blog: on on wordpress (wordsinthebucket.wordpress.com), one on another hosting (wordsinthebucket.com). How can I let the wordpress one “point” to the other one? Shall I buy the “mapping service”? Or delete it?

  Thank you in advance. Hope my question is clear.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 5, 2014 at 3:32 pm

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  WordPress.com is the top level domain here and all blogs hosted by WordPress.com are on .wordpress.com sub-domains.

  You can purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

  You can set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

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  wordsinthebucket · Member · Sep 5, 2014 at 3:39 pm

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  Thank you so much.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 5, 2014 at 3:44 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.