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  bilyfernandez · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 7:03 pm

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  We got a website built with wordpress and right now is hosted with another company. We would like to host it with wordpress.com.

  We would like the host only. The domain will remain in the other company.

  What do we need to do?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 7:32 pm

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  WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

  See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.

  See here so you understand the differences between WordPress.COM hosted sites and WordPress.ORG installs and the limitations on WordPress.COM blogging.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  For moving your content see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/
  See also https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

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  timethief · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 7:33 pm

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  The domain will remain in the other company.

  WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year.

  Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually and a domain name purchase and domain mapping are included in the Premium ujpgrade bundle.

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL.

  If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  It can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.