Hosting Your Own WordPress Blog
Hosting the website yourself gives you more control, freeing you from being at the mercy of a company that is providing free hosting.
You will not have to put up with free ads or suffer the consequences if the company changes their rules or does not approve of your site for whatever reason.
Setting up your own hosting can give you more flexibility as well, if you desire to make money blogging.
Are you worried about the process of setting up your own website? Thankfully setting up your own site is much easier than it used to be.
The purpose of this article is to give you an idea of how simple it actually is.
Choosing a domain name is the first thing you will need to do after choosing a hosting company where you will be hosting your own WordPress blog.
It is best if you choose a domain name that is relevant to what your blog is about, rather than choosing a name at random.
By having a keyword rich name, people will be able to find your site easier when they use the search engines to enter the keywords they are looking for.
After you apply for hosting, the hosting company provides you with a control panel from which you can launch various operations.
Installing a WordPress blog using "Simple Scripts" is indeed simple.
Make sure your hosting company provides the option of using "Simple Scripts".
You will need a database, which you can set up manually or it could be included in the running of "Simple Scripts".
You will be prompted to choose a username and password for your blog.
Moments after running the script, you will receive the information needed to log in to your new WordPress blog dashboard.
Once inside the dashboard of your new WP site, you have several options on how to configure your site.
There are free themes to choose from or you can leave the default theme as your theme for now.
There is also a choice of plug-ins that will help the functionality of your blog.
As you play around with your new site and read up on how to set it up, you will discover which plug-ins will be best for your purposes.
Setting up your own website need not be difficult.
Now that you have some tips on how to set up your own website, why not get started with hosting your own WordPress blog?