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  • Hi!
    I’ve had a blog with Blogger for the past 4 years. It’s been good but lately I’ve been itching to get my own domain. I’d really like to work Via wordpress, I’ve got another blog through them and find it to be much more user friendly.

    My two questions are this, what are the benefits to having my own domain?

    And the big question, I need a super user friendly host! I helped my Father in law set up a website and his host was really confusing.

    Any help would be very appreciated! Thanks

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  • I hope that you don’t mind me turning your questions around a bit. To me, the main thing is that hosting your own WordPress involves knowing or learning a few things, most notably FTP, and the fact that WordPress uses files and a database. You may find it useful to imagine yourself following the Famous 5 Minute Install documented on this page:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

    Yes, there are tons of web hosts that offer “one click installs” for WordPress. But there are two things wrong with that. (1) They tend to be “non-standard” making them hard to trouble-shoot and even more difficult to upgrade whenever a new version of WordPress comes along. (2) You miss out on the learning opportunity of doing the Install yourself, meaning you will have to learn all this technology later on, when you are in a panic with a problem.

    Thread Starter ourfamilystone

    (@ourfamilystone)

    I did try that for my FIL and it was too much for me. i want the one click method, very badly! Thanks though 🙂

    bluehost.com
    hostgator.com
    hostmonster.com
    all offer one click installs with a cpanel interface – about as simple as it gets

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