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1. pandask
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Folks,
   I am running my blog inside wordpress hosting. But slowly thinking to move it to paid hosting. I would like to know what I am going to loose not being inside WordPress, please share your thoughts.
   1. If I move out of wordpress to paid, I will not get the advantage of "community" ?? Being inside WordPress, I enjoy other bloggers visiting through wordpress Dashboard. Will I miss it ?

   2. I think wordpress should take some service charge but let community grow inside (more like MySpace.com)

   3. What other stuff I will miss not being inside wordpress.com??

   Thanks,
   -Panda

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Think of what will you gain :)
   Ability to use the themes you want, to upload the plugins you want, to customize your blog the way you want - i.e. full control of your blog.

3. maerk
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I will not get the advantage of "community" ?? Being inside WordPress, I enjoy other bloggers visiting through wordpress Dashboard. Will I miss it ?

   That's about 9 visits per year then ;)

4. DesignPastor
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   moshu hit the nail on the head ....

   think of what you will GAIN? .. FULL CONTROL !!!!

   but do find a reliable host that will not charge an arm and a leg for your domain and support of WP ... some sites i have come across are ridicilious with their pricing and you can find someone much cheaper that has you in mind and the objective of saving you money ...

5. bitleak
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Panda, as everyone who has replied so far has said, what you will gain far exeeds what you will loose.

   Since you are thinking of moving to paid hosting, I wanted to share an offer I took advantage of myself. deamhost has an amazing deal. If you visit their page, hit the "signup now" button for the one year pre-payment of the crazy domain insane! plan, and just before checkout you put 777 in the promo code box (its their 7th year anniversary), you get an entire year for less than ten dollars. Aside from a free domain registration with free whois security, they give you 20 gb of space, a terabyte of bandwidth among a bunch of other options. PLUS! they natively support WordPress. Matter of fact its one of their "one-click software install packages". I usually dont promote hosting plans on forums, but in this case I think this is a great deal you can take advantage of.

6. DesignPastor
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   yeah .. dreamhost has a WONDERFUL deal .. but just beware of one thing ...

   if you go through all the trouble of customizing your theme and your site really begins to take off .. just think that after one year you will have two options to consider:

   1. stay with Dreamhost and pay their fees for their hosting, or
   2. figure how you can relocate to other host and bring all your database information with you.

   jsut something to consider ...

   DreamHost really sounds GREAT .. and if i was not already committed, i would take them up on it ... not a bad deal at all.

   but again .. just consider some possible headaches a year from now ...

7. bitleak
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Absolutely agree. Really good point. After the year if you are not going to pay and continue with the service moving your site can be a major headache even if you really know what you are doing.

   I really like his forum. full of smart people.

8. DesignPastor
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   i am not so sure we can take credit to being SMART ... we are all learning from each other here ...

   i would tend to think (at least for me) it comes from experience.

9. bitleak
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Pastor... just checked out your site. Aside from great usability, great mission. Keep it up. God Bless!!!

10. pandask
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Great replies...I will definitely want to add all those WordPress cool features but I don't know about the following?

    1.If I move to paid hosting, will my site generate the leads thrugh "wordpress" tag? for example I get 100 visitors through wordpress.com/SAP, etc

    2.When my blog generates good traffic, will my blog be rated as top visiting inside WordPress? (through dashboard)

    Thanks folks,
    -Panda

11. moshu
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Define "inside WordPress"...

12. pandask
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I am currently inside wordpress.com with my blog adipt.wordpress.com.
    When I post, I get lot of traffic through wordpress.com/tag/technology.

    Will I loose those traffic if I move to my own domain Adipt.com?

13. moshu
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I don't know. If your readers are loyal > they will follow you. Nothing is guaranteed. Maybe they will come, maybe they won't. Maybe 1 million other will come. Maybe nobody.

    Don't ask questions that don't have an answer ;)

14. DesignPastor
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    bitleak: i appreicate your kind words and if you ever need anything, please consider adMINISTRY.

    pandask: i do not think you will "loose" traffic at all .. you might even gain some ... one possibility is to keep your wp.com site, but make a PROMINANT post to let people know you are now on your own domain (that is if you think you will loose any traffic)

15. pandask
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Moshu, Thanks a ton.

    I had thought that wordpress.com/tag is more like "technorati" ping-o-matic type which makes easier for all wordpress tag to be collected and shown to user.

    For instance :
    So If I write a blog post with tag "technology", any user can visit wordpress.com/tag/technology to see what are the latest technology blog happening among wordpress.com bloggers?

16. ptvguy
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I know what you're talking about, pandask. My blog started out on WP.com and was then migrated to its own site.

    For any of you that have never been WP-hosted, there is a great sense of community there and "inside" support. As someone who posted regularly in their support forums, I gained literally hundreds of individual visitors each month coming to my site from the forum links. Also, they have "best of" and "top performing" lists of blogs linked from the main dashboard admin panel. You can get some idea of this on the wordpress.com home page.

    When others have asked me whether they should move from WP hosting to paid hosting, I always ask them what it is they're trying to gain that WP doesn't offer. In my case, I needed advertising and the ability to directly control my theme, overall CSS, and even core functionality. If you can't name something very specific that you need to do with your site that can't be done there, then there's probably not a good reason to move.

    DISADVANTAGES

    • You'll confuse your existing readers and probably lose some of them.
    • You'll lose any existing standings or PageRank you may have already built up.
    • You'll lose any existing outside links to your site.
    • When something breaks or gets messed up, there's only you to fix it or pay someone else to.
    • You'll no longer be included in any of the wordpress.com listings of "best of" or "best performing" blogs or other categories specific to that community.
    • You will definitely miss the natural sense of community and interconnectedness that exists on the WP-hosted blogs.

    ADVANTAGES

    • Direct control over any and every aspect of your site.
    • You can put as much or as little advertising as you want.
    • You can use any JavaScript or piece of code that happens to catch your fancy.
    • You can use ANY theme or plugin out there.
    • You can tweak any piece of code or formatting till it's just the way you want it.

    That's just a short list, but you get the idea. Self-hosting is not right for everyone any more than WP-hosting is. The decision comes down to weighing the advantages against the disadvantages.

    Again, let me repeat, if you can't name something very specific that you need to do with your site that can't be done there, then there's probably not a good reason to move.

17. pandask
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    ptvguy, you are wonderful. Excellent compilation.

    Many Thanks,
    -Panda

18. Nnyan
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I think for a smaller/casual site the WP hosting is fine, but as soon as you want to do a bit of customizing/have more control then its time to move on.

    Yep you will definately loose a sense of community but then again there are other communities out there. Find yourself a web host that has customer forums. You'll find that many of these are great communities and sources of information.

    I don't really think that in todays world a change in URL will confuse people. Keep your WP site up for a bit and point it to your new site. Notify your users with plenty of time.

    If you care enough about the outside links find them and then have people update them.

    Just b/c you host your site with someone other then WP doesn't mean there is no support. There are many excellent hosting companies that provide excellent support. Head over to sites like http://www.webhostingtalk.com and do a few searches.

    Also it's not very hard to move your website to another. As a matter of fact once you're off WP hosting its generally easier. For example if you go from one CPanel host to another completly moving your sight is a matter of a few clicks.

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