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Hello everyone i made a thread later about blogs.Now that i know how to work with a blog i want to find out a free hosting like blogetery and makes my wordpress site with wordpress plugins and all of that.
#blog #free #provider
  • Profile picture of the author Kecia
    Here is the first one I found by searching "free web hosting" in Google

    Free Web Hosting with PHP, MySQL and cPanel, No Ads

    You may want to try doing a similar Google search as well. I don't personally have experience with free web hosts. I use HostGator and the customer support and features are well worth the $9.95/month.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Hi,

    If it needs to be a Wordpress blog, two free hosts are Byethost and 000WebHost. (There are many others, too: these are just the two I know a little about).

    They each have their own advantages/disadvantages.

    Byethost is a well-established, professional hosting company which sells a range of paid hosting packages too, and they try (pretty successfully, I gather) to sell them to people who've been impressed with the free hosting, so their reliability tends to be high. They don't have a standard C-Panel and installing Wordpress there is more difficult than in many places (though I can possibly dig you out some instructions if you want them - no promises and no practical help offered because I don't use Wordpress, myself!).

    000WebHost does have C-Panel, I think, and installing Wordpress there is very much easier. I don't know if it's as reliable, overall, as Byethost. All my information about 000WebHost is second-hand because I've never used it myself, but I've certainly heard some good things about it.

    If you don't need your site/blog to be Wordpress specifically, then you're rather better off, it seems to me, in choosing free hosting: you can look at services like Weebly (excellent host), Yola, Blinkweb, and other places which allow you a small free-hosting package to start off with, hoping that you might eventually "upgrade" to paid hosting there when you want more sites.

    Anyway - you're asking a good question. And I think you already know, from your earlier threads, not to use places like Blogger, HubPages and Squidoo for your site, don't you?

    Edited to add: I posted at the same time as Kecia, and as you see, the one she's neatly found happens to be one of the ones about which I've heard some quite good things. So maybe have a good look at that one?
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  • Profile picture of the author wowcolombia1
    :O alexa again,first let me tell you that you are very helpful
    Umm second thank you for your help but i am looking for something like blogetery that they have theyr own custom domain and like wordpress.com,but not those because i really dont like them,anyways thanks for your help people
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by wowcolombia1 View Post

      i am looking for something like blogetery that they have theyr own custom domain
      I think you may have misunderstood ... they offer free domain mapping. That means you buy the domain and they don't charge you for allowing you to domain-map it to your blog on their hosting?

      If instead of that, you use theirs, I think you'll find it's going to be a subdomain (just as at Weebly, and so on), not a domain.

      Originally Posted by wowcolombia1 View Post

      and like wordpress.com,but not those because i really dont like them,
      Here, I suspect you may be confused between wordpress.com and wordpress.org.

      Wordpress.com is a site offering free hosting for a range of Wordpress blogs but it's for "hobby bloggers" only. No form of monetization is allowed there. Anything to do with internet marketing is going to breach their terms of service and get deleted. That's out of the question for you. Even worse and less appropriate than Blogger/Hub/Squidoo.

      Wordpress.org is the home of "Wordpress software" (it's free) for self-hosted Wordpress blogs on your own hosting - whether it's free hosting or paid hosting.
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  • Profile picture of the author wowcolombia1
    I am going to make a domain with 000webhost then,thank you alexa btw i want to have a talk to you about blogs
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by wowcolombia1 View Post

      I am going to make a domain with 000webhost then
      Good luck. (You know you'll need to register a domain-name somewhere, to use their free hosting? At least, I think you will!).

      Originally Posted by wowcolombia1 View Post

      alexa btw i want to have a talk to you about blogs
      Good luck with that, too - I only really know about TypePad blogs (and you don't want to use that one!).
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      • Profile picture of the author wowcolombia1
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Good luck. (You know you'll need to register a domain-name somewhere, to use their free hosting? At least, I think you will!).



        Good luck with that, too - I only really know about TypePad blogs (and you don't want to use that one!).
        Well i dont know what is a typad blog but anyways 000webhost gives you a subdomain name and hosting you just have to upload wordpress via ftp
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by wowcolombia1 View Post

          anyways 000webhost gives you a subdomain name and hosting you just have to upload wordpress via ftp
          Ah, ok ... good. (Sorry, I didn't know they gave you a subdomain. ).

          Well, I don't blame you at all for wanting to use Wordpress. It has many advantages - not least of them the fact that there's always help/advice available for Wordpress (including plenty of video tutorials on YouTube and so on) because it's "the one everyone uses".

          Looks like Wordpress is available there as a one-click installation, through C-Panel, if you want it, without needing FTP? http://www.000webhost.com/fantastico
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  • Profile picture of the author cb1803
    Why do you want to take free hosting services ? You can't avail all facilities associated with paid hosting services.
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  • Profile picture of the author Britt Malka
    I don't trust 000Webhost. They have an affiliate program, offering money for making people sign up, and although I've reached their limit several times, I never got a pay out.

    Right now, I wanted to check how much they owed me, and I found that my affiliate account had disappeared.

    If they treat affiliates like that, how do they treat customers?
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  • Profile picture of the author tamimabraham
    here you go--> DH mart :: Free Web Hosting unlimited hosting for free! As like as paid hosting!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by tamimabraham View Post

      here you go--> DH mart :: Free Web Hosting unlimited hosting for free! As like as paid hosting!
      Well ... please excuse the observation that that one throws up some red flags, from my perspective.

      They've been in existence only since last year, it seems. Their own site is on a .info domain-name. Their own email address is a gmail one. They claim only "99% up-time" (doesn't sound bad but it's actually significantly lower than the 99.9% many claim). Each of these is a small point and may mean nothing much, in itself. Collectively, they'd certainly put me off. One does need to be very careful, when selecting free hosting, to choose something very well established and with a long-proven record of reliability.
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