pricing
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I have noticed a lot of my blogger friends use other hosting sites to host their wordpress blogs because of how much cheaper it is. Can you help me understand what the difference is between these other sites doing $3-6 a month and your $8.25 a month? Ive looked at the comparison charts but these other sites are doing the same exact things.
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Hi there,
With those other WordPress providers you are actually paying for a bunch of stuff that you get for free on WordPress.com. You can have a fully functional website on WordPress.com without spending a cent, so other providers aren’t actually cheaper.
To host a website you need 4 very important things: A server, bandwidth, storage, and a domain. On WordPress.com we give you a free *.wordpress.com subdomain for life, free use of our servers to host your site, unlimited free bandwidth (meaning there is no cap on how many people can visit your site in a given time period), and 3GB of storage space for media files (we only restrict the storage space for media files; the actual storage space for your site and it’s content is unlimited, meaning you’ll never see a message that you can’t make a new post or page because you’ve reached the space limit).
Additionally we do all site maintenance (software updates, security and backups) for you, and your site comes with some of the best spam-protection and SEO on the web already built in. All of this still part of the free plan. The Premium Plan then adds extra features on top of everything you already get for free.
With self-hosted WordPress sites you need to pay for everything I mentioned above, or do it yourself. The amount of storage space for your site, storage space for media files, and the number of people who can visit your site in a given time period, are limited based on which plan you buy.
You do have more freedom on a self-hosted site to make changes to your site, for example, the ability to make CSS changes to your theme is built in while it’s a paid upgrade here, but on the other hand if your site breaks you will need to fix it yourself – most hosting providers’ support only applies to your hosting account, not to your site itself. You will also be responsible for updating software yourself, keeping your own backups, and protecting your site against hackers, malware and other security threats.
I hope this clarifies it for you a bit, but let me know if you have any more questions.
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