setting up a site

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  juliepero · Member · Jan 6, 2020 at 8:20 pm

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  Hi, I own a domain, but I want to make a blog on wordpress. I see I have to pay $13/year to do that, I have done this is in the past and it was free, what gives?

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 7, 2020 at 12:14 am

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  Hi @juliepero, actually you’d need a personal plan to host a custom domain here on our servers:
  https://wordpress.com/pricing/

  Everything costs us money, of course, so paid upgrades allow us to cover our costs of hosting, maintenance, security, and support. Paid upgrades help us keep free things free.

  Alternatively, you can run your own free copy of WordPress with another hosting provider, and take care of hosting, maintenance, security and support on your own. We have more information here:

  https://get.wp.com