WordPress.com and WordPress.org

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    bossdwebmania · Member ·

    Why do I have 2 WordPress websites? which is which and what is what? I’m confused and need help understanding how this works. Am I paying for both sites, or is one free or is it just a clone of my actual WordPress.org site for payment processing? Super confused about this WordPress.com website. If I can please get help that will be great. Thanks!

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to moderators and staff)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    What is the two sites? I only see one site in the account you’re using to post here: http://www.webmania.tv/

    WordPress is free, open source software, made by the community on WordPress.org. Anyone can download that software for free, and install it on their own server or at a hosting provider to make a website.

    WordPress.com, where you’re posting to now, is one such hosting provider, but we don’t host your site at http://www.webmania.tv/. Your site is connected to this WordPress.com account through a plugin on your site called Jetpack, but your hosting provider for that site is https://www.inap.com/ (previously called SingleHop)

    You’re paying INAP for hosting your site, and PublicDomainRegistry.com for your domain registration.

    You don’t pay us (WordPress.com) anything, as using the Jetpack plugin is free, nor are you paying WordPress.org anything, as that’s just the website where the software is made, and they don’t sell anything or provide any paid services.

    If you have another site, we’ll need to know the URL of that site before we can tell you whether or not you’re paying us anything for that one.

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