The Differences Between WordPress Hosting And Other Hosting Types

When you buy a hosting plan, you're paying for space on a server that physically exists elsewhere - and for the bandwidth your visitors will use to access what you store on it. There's a lot of variation between different kinds of hosting plan, but one of the most common in the current world are the ones sold by WordPress. These are mostly designed for blogs, but there are other ways to use WordPress hosting and the WP content management system to build a website of another type.

An Introduction To WordPress And WordPress Hosting

WordPress is a piece of open source software that allows its users to create a website using any one of the many thousands of highly customisable templates available. There are plenty of ways to tweak them to fit your requirements, and most though not all of them are based on the idea of a blog.

Depending on the package you choose to get from WordPress, you'll either have free hosting on their own subdomain (so your URL will be something like www.yoursitename.wordpress.com) or you'll buy a customised domain (www.yoursitename.com) and host it in a traditional way through their servers and packages.

The Singular Features Of WordPress Hosting

If you're just building a small blog or website of your own, you won't need anything more than the standard free shared server hosting offered by WordPress to all of its members. It offers plenty for most purposes - there's an ample quantity of space, assuming you're not going to post nothing but loads and loads of audio and video, and loads of different free templates, and if you learn a little about coding you'll be able to use them to build a site that doesn't look like it's a blog.

If you do decide to go for paid WordPress hosting, however, you'll find that there are a lot of different things that make it a good way to go. For one thing, their plans are both flexible and reasonably priced - you'll find that you can pay for what you need without inadvertently also paying for more than you need. You'll also get included the use of an incredibly flexible and user-friendly content management system; one that will be updated frequently and that almost anyone can learn how to use.

Even if in the future you want to use the WP CMS with another host, you'll find that just so long as the host you choose can handle the most recent version of PHP and SQL you'll be able to transfer your website very easily indeed.

How To Sign Up For WordPress Hosting

As with most services of this type, WordPress is very easy to sign up for. All you need to do is go to the WordPress website at www.wordpress.com and use their straightforward account creation form to join. There will be an option to choose your plan at some point during this process, which will allow you to either stick with the free version or go on to give payment details for a premium account.