Title: WordPress.org or WordPress.com
Last modified: October 5, 2016

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# WordPress.org or WordPress.com

 *  [eword3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eword3/)
 * (@eword3)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-org-or-wordpress-com/)
 * Hello i’ve got several questions about wordpress! First how do i know if my installation
   is wordpress .org or wordpress.com? Second i’ve got a custom installation presspi
   on a raspian, where do i should host it, in a free way, obviously!? After i’ve
   hosted the site how do my colleagues post on it new content?
 * Best Wishes
 * eword3
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [eword3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eword3/).

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 *  [Tanveer Sure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsure/)
 * (@tsure)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-org-or-wordpress-com/#post-8254576)
 * Hi [@eword3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eword3/),
 * In brief, WordPress is a blogging software platform which now has diverse use
   for generic web development. WordPress.com owned and managed by a company called
   Automattic provides this platform for free and also helps you with building whatever
   you are looking to build. However, this comes at a cost of subscription of course.
   The other option is you download this software platform for free from WordPress.
   org and build whatever you want all by yourself. It would be your responsibility
   to manage and maintain your website/application.
 * For more information and a few more differences please read more about this on:
   
   [https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/](https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/)
 * If you are going the WordPress.org way then do take a look at the link below 
   for recommended hosting options:
    [https://wordpress.org/hosting/](https://wordpress.org/hosting/)
 * If you are considering WordPress.com then hosting would be taken care by the 
   team over at Automattic.
 * Once you have hosted the website, viewing content is just giving them your domain
   eg: [http://www.mynewwebsite.com](http://www.mynewwebsite.com) and if you are
   looking for them to post then you can add them as users to your website assigning
   them the correct permissions.
 * Hope that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [eword3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eword3/)
 * (@eword3)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-org-or-wordpress-com/#post-8255890)
 * Thanks for your reply! I’ve download a presspi image and i’ve flashed it on a
   Pi3! Make some changes to the config file to make it available on my homenetwork!
   Now i need to make it visible to others on world wide web! So, concluding this
   distro is .org? I need to pay bluehost or other provider to make it visible? 
   Is that so?
 *  [Tanveer Sure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsure/)
 * (@tsure)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-org-or-wordpress-com/#post-8257348)
 * Hi [@eword3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eword3/),
 * Yes, BlueHost or any other Web hosting service provider will charge you a fee
   for maintaining your code on their hardware. The other option is to get a static
   IP from your ISP and host it on your machine itself but making it accessible 
   to the rest of the world via static IP.
 * I would still go for a web hosting service provider as that would be more reliable
   and would take certain burden of hardware off your shoulders.

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