what are the costs of creating and running a blog

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  ontogram · Member · Sep 13, 2012 at 10:14 pm

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  I find nothing anywhere that describes the costs of creating a blog and maintaining it etc. over time? It is bizarre that I have to pose this as a support question and the answer is not immediately in front of any user. What’s the story?
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  timethief · Member · Sep 13, 2012 at 10:20 pm

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  The story is that this is a WordPress.com support forum where blogs are free of charge and hosting is free of charge. On these support forums we are allowed to post only support questions that are relevant to WordPress.com. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-housekeeping?replies=1

  If you are referring to a WordPress.org install then reliable, high quality web hosting charges vary in accord with your requirements. For self-hosting figure an average monthly total cost (including cost of a domain name) of about $10 to $25 generally, but that all depends on storage and bandwidth requirements.
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/11/06/setting-up-a-self-hosted-wordpress-org-install/
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/08/31/moving-your-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org-resources-and-tips/

  As we aren’t allowed to create discussion threads I have flagged this one for closure.