I mistakenly opened a Free WordPress site, I want a Self-Hosted WordPress site

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    jhardypoetry · Member ·

    I mistakenly opened a Free WordPress site, I want a Self-Hosted WordPress site through Bluehost. How do I make this switch?

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

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  • aleone89 · Staff ·

    Hey there,

    Many thanks for reaching out and happy to help here.

    Technically, you would need to switch anything as a site created at WordPress.com would be completely separate to anything created with another provider.

    This site isn’t hosted with WordPress.com so our support overall is limited in this instance, but if it were hosted with WordPress.com, where updates are run automatically, we’d be more than happy to help.

    To explain, there’s two types of WordPress. The first is WordPress.com, where we provide an optimised version of WordPress.com, daily backups, automatic updates, a 24/7 support service and an optimised version of WordPress. The second is self-hosted WordPress, where the free open source version of the software is installed onto a server.

    More on the differences can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    Pretty much everything that’s possible with self-hosted WordPress is possible with WordPress.com, depending on the features and functionality you require: https://wordpress.com/pricing/. The main difference with self-hosted WordPress, is that you’re essentially on your own with the site to build…

    What are you looking to build exactly? I can perhaps offer some insights on how to build that, and how we can help with the build.

    I hope this helps and speak soon!

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