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    The Cost of Self-Hosting WordPress

    When I decided to self-host a blog one of the things which convinced me to move over was the idea that I would be paying less. At the time I was paying for a domain, paying to connect the domain to my blog and paying for all sorts of extra features through WordPress. As you can imagine I was quite interested in not paying so much to run my blog and as such moved to a self-hosted blog. However looking back I now realise I hadn’t saved as much money as I thought I would. THE COST OF SELF-HOSTING WORDPRESS The really important thing when running a self-hosted blog is…

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    4 Advantages Of A Self-Hosted Blog

    While I was blogging at WordPress.com I saw a self-hosted blog as the end goal. Like that was the point which proved that I had a really good blog because I had total control over it. I know from certain circles having a self-hosted blog is the thing to do if you want to be seen as a “proper” blogger. So I moved away from WordPress.com and though now I realise that may not have been the best decision. There were also some very good reasons as to why I wanted a self-hosted blog. 4 ADVANTAGES OF A SELF-HOSTED BLOG AD REVENUE While blogging on WordPress.com I had to play…