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I've never used wordpress... No budget..

by dustinthetoucan
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Alright... I need to ask the forum if there is anyway to get wordpress on a free host of any kind with an existing domain I have. If there is, I'd like to know. I've never used it but I'm wanting to dabble with it. I have no money to spend on hosting.. gas and food are kind of above hosting. Right now I just do blogger and I feel trapped in a box.. It works, just not well for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Originally Posted by dustinthetoucan View Post

    Alright... I need to ask the forum if there is anyway to get wordpress on a free host of any kind with an existing domain I have. If there is, I'd like to know. I've never used it but I'm wanting to dabble with it. I have no money to spend on hosting.. gas and food are kind of above hosting. Right now I just do blogger and I feel trapped in a box.. It works, just not well for me.
    To be honest, I don't know of any free host that can host wordpress. Hosting can be as little as $5 a month so you really need to find the money wherever you can if you want to be successful online. I suggest monetising your free blogs to produce the money required for hosting and go from there.

    Wordpress is an open source software as it is and to get it for free is absolutely awesome.

    If you know what you're doing it's very easy to get your sites earning enough to cover hosting each month.
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  • Profile picture of the author Roy Penrod
    You can set it up on your own computer and play around with it. Here's a tutorial that explains how to set Wordpress up on your own computer.
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  • Profile picture of the author radhika
    Any free host will give you a subdomain as your web site. So nothing different from the blogger you are using.

    Buy a domain with Godaddy. I think they offer you free hosting. Check details at godaddy.com.


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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    If you just want to learn the basics of WordPress you could always get a free wordpress.com account.

    It's restrictive, a lot like Blogger and you can't use it to promote your affiliate stuff or for any commercial purpose. But the price is right (and honestly, you wouldn't expect to set up any commercial service on a free host anyway).

    It's good for learning the ropes until you can get the 10 bucks a month together for proper hosting. Once you do install the version of WordPress from wordpress.org and you're in business.

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author good2go4
    There is a thread on here offering hostgator for the first month for a $1 - just do a search for hostgator and you should find it

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    • Profile picture of the author Mark Coverdale
      How much of a business are you trying to start?

      Some people need to ask themselves if this is a business or a hobby. I know people are struggling with money and can't afford certain expenses but hosting is cheap and a VERY vital part of an online business.

      If you can't afford $5 a month for basic hosting then maybe you should be worrying about other bills and other avenues of income that only cost your time.

      Can't you go without a cup of coffee a week or some other treat?

      Trying to start a real business with NO budget is not realistic at all. Offline is the same as online, you need a budget, even if the differences are huge.

      I don't mean to sound harsh but you will have to spend money eventually to start a real business.
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      • Profile picture of the author Judith Tramayne
        From the sound of your post, I take it you want to learn WordPress before you spend any money for a hosting account.

        Depending on whether you have a PC or a Mac, you can download MAMP for a Mac or XAMPP for PC. Both are free.

        If you Google -- Wordpress on a local host - you can see how to download and install either of these.

        There are great instructions at the wordpress.org site and another great place to learn is youtube.com

        First, learn what you need to using the above free resources, then you'll have the confidence to go forward with your business.

        Just be aware, "Build it and they will come" doesn't apply when your site is sitting in a cul-de-sac on the information highway.

        You're still going to have to put up road signs to get targeted visitors to your site.

        I wish you well and no amount of telling you to spend money will help when you don't have it to spend.

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        • Profile picture of the author dustinthetoucan
          Originally Posted by Judith Tramayne View Post

          From the sound of your post, I take it you want to learn WordPress before you spend any money for a hosting account.

          Depending on whether you have a PC or a Mac, you can download MAMP for a Mac or XAMPP for PC. Both are free.

          If you Google -- Wordpress on a local host - you can see how to download and install either of these.

          There are great instructions at the wordpress.org site and another great place to learn is youtube.com

          First, learn what you need to using the above free resources, then you'll have the confidence to go forward with your business.

          Just be aware, "Build it and they will come" doesn't apply when your site is sitting in a cul-de-sac on the information highway.

          You're still going to have to put up road signs to get targeted visitors to your site.

          I wish you well and no amount of telling you to spend money will help when you don't have it to spend.

          Judith

          You were one of the people that really saw what I was asking and for that I say, "Thank the lord!". I can get some traffic. I'm getting better with article marketing and profile backlinks. So I'm starting to get my feet wet. I figure if I have learned xhtml and css (And a teeny bit of php) I can get used to wordpress...I just don't want to throw money I don't have at something I may not use.
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          Thanks in advance... :)..... -Dustin

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          • Profile picture of the author Judith Tramayne
            Dustin,

            If you have knowledge of CSS, XHTML and can at least read PHP, you'll have no problem with Wordpress.

            It's actually quite fun to take the free theme and change it to fit your business.

            So play and have total fun.

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            • Profile picture of the author dustinthetoucan
              Alright Judith,

              I'm trusting you on this one. I'll jump right in. The host someone mentioned earlier will let me host for free (With little bandwith, but I'm just experimenting). Thanks again to everyone who replied with advice!

              Any plugins and such that are must haves with it?
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              Thanks in advance... :)..... -Dustin

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              • Profile picture of the author MagicAce
                Ok maybe I'm not on the subject here but how much work would be for you to make a gig o fiverr and get 10 dollars for hosting? Anyone can do something to make money for the host in 20 min!
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                • Profile picture of the author chrisscott
                  I've understood actually you are little reluctant to get hosting before you know anything about WP.

                  It's good that you want full control on WP before starting actual work, so in this case for you the better is to download WP as one of the warrior provided link above and do as per tutorial. Spend some time and when you feel confident then grab a hosting and start playing with WP.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Judith Tramayne
                    Dustin,

                    I recommend these free plugins:

                    SI CAPTCHA anti-spam and NOT Akismet

                    Tabber Widget from ithemes

                    Widget Logic

                    W3 Total Cache (helps make site run faster. Activate after you've put in your content)



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      • Profile picture of the author dustinthetoucan
        Originally Posted by Mark Coverdale View Post

        How much of a business are you trying to start?

        Some people need to ask themselves if this is a business or a hobby. I know people are struggling with money and can't afford certain expenses but hosting is cheap and a VERY vital part of an online business.

        If you can't afford $5 a month for basic hosting then maybe you should be worrying about other bills and other avenues of income that only cost your time.

        Can't you go without a cup of coffee a week or some other treat?

        Trying to start a real business with NO budget is not realistic at all. Offline is the same as online, you need a budget, even if the differences are huge.

        I don't mean to sound harsh but you will have to spend money eventually to start a real business.

        I've spent money on hosting before with xhtml/css websites I've hand coded. I've spent time and money on this, I'm just not ready to shell out money to something I've never worked with yet.
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        Thanks in advance... :)..... -Dustin

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  • Profile picture of the author DeborahDera
    Originally Posted by dustinthetoucan View Post

    Alright... I need to ask the forum if there is anyway to get wordpress on a free host of any kind with an existing domain I have. If there is, I'd like to know. I've never used it but I'm wanting to dabble with it. I have no money to spend on hosting.. gas and food are kind of above hosting. Right now I just do blogger and I feel trapped in a box.. It works, just not well for me.
    You can use wordpress.com to create a blog in a manner similar to blogger (vs. wordpress.org where you would download wordpress to use on your own server).

    I really don't know much about free hosting except for sites like wordpress and blogger, but hosting on a site like godaddy should only cost you a few dollars per month for a basic account ($4-5).
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  • Profile picture of the author alphazulu
    if you really want to throw wordpress on a free host try out 000webhost .com I made a free account but never did anything with it, you get 2 mysql and php plus ftp access so it sounds like you should be able to through wordpress up there

    Like i said I never did anything with it or even tried but it might worth checking out, also xampp is pretty easy as well
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  • Profile picture of the author lacraiger
    the cost of a year's hosting and domain is less than one full tank of gas. if you arent willing to invest money in a domain and host then this industry just isnt for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author AllyW
    Dude, I wouldn't even worry about it, WordPress is so easy to use that even *I* can do it and do it well. It's incredible, and very easy to use. Get some hosting and install WordPress and I guarantee that you'll have your first site up in half an hour.
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  • Profile picture of the author camouflage
    hey ther..... i am looking at GoDaddy + Wordpress hosting. What do you guys think? Is it worth for money?

    And can anyone differentiate using free Wordpress and with paid hosting ??
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    • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
      Originally Posted by camouflage View Post

      hey ther..... i am looking at GoDaddy + Wordpress hosting. What do you guys think?
      Bad idea. WP and GD is a very bad combination! GD hosting is a bad idea by itself...


      Originally Posted by camouflage View Post

      And can anyone differentiate using free Wordpress and with paid hosting ??
      YOU should "differentiate". We have posted about it a zillion times.
      What about visiting the 2 sites to see them for yourself? Whay should I do the legwork for you?
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      • Profile picture of the author red dog
        Try 000webhost.com I used this hosting when I started my first wordpress blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paleochora
    Hosterbox is a good, reliable hosting company and just now they are offering a free account (as a special promo - but it is lifetime) with CPanel and latest Wordpress installed with Fantasico. There are unlimited databases and sub-domains allowed so you could build loads of blogs

    You need a Domain name first for this, though : Hosterbox - Portal Home (not my aff. link - this is what I was given)

    Also, Byethost.com have good free accounts where you don't need to buy a domain name to get started (you can create subdomains on their top level domain names) They have 50 databases available.

    Free Hosting, Paid Hosting, Reseller Services & VPS Servers : Byet Internet

    Wordpress installation is very easy here to, they run something called VistaPanel which is slightly different to CPanel.

    Great thing about Byethost is that if you decide to upgrade to paid hosting you will only pay something like $4/month and will get a free .com, .net, .org domain thrown in. They will even take everything you want off the free hosting and set it up on the new paid hosting for you for free.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Dustin, hostgator has its famous 1 cent first month special. If you really knuckle down and do something with your Wordpress blog, I'm sure you could start earning enough to pay for the monthly hosting fees after 30 days. You have to put your mind to it and really decide that you want to make this work.

    In my opinion, all this free stuff actually hurts you more than it helps, because you end up not taking things as seriously when there isn't any money on the line.

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  • Profile picture of the author derekchambers
    I don't kknow of any host that will let you use your own self hosted version of wordpress but I have seen plenty of cheap hosting accounts around (i offer one myself)

    Sel;f hosted wordpress if installed correctly can be far more beneficial that the free blogger sites and far more secure

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      Originally Posted by derekchambers View Post

      I don't kknow of any host that will let you use your own self hosted version of wordpress
      You didn't want actually to read the thread before replying, then? You'd have known of several by now ...
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    There are blog hosts out there, like blog.com that use wordpress multisite, that have quite a few options enabled. Thats a good starting point.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    Like what the others recommended byethethost.com is the way to go. Its the best option you've got if you just like to test the waters. However dont forget to get a paid hosting once you can afford it.


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