Comments on: Beginner’s guide to self-hosting your WordPress blog

By: jessiethought

jessiethought — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:21:13 +0000

Getting to self-hosted sure sounds like a headache! (But after it was done very good.)

By: Lolly

Lolly — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:50:14 +0000

Hi Tom,

Thanks for popping by! Agreed, the term self-host is a little confusing. Self-Hosting means you are paying for your own host (self) as opposed to using the free WP platform (wordpress.com)

When you are self-hosting, you are creating a ‘proper’ website which offers more functionalities that the free wordpress.com platform.

Hope this makes sense!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:58:17 +0000

Hi,

very usefu, and nice blog…l may watch the tutorial later, but am tempted to be a wimp and have one of the WP “happiness engineers” move me from wordpress to self host. I’m still trying to work out exactly what self-host means though? It seems a mis-leading term, no? I mean atm I’m hosted by wordpress and I’m looking at dreamhost, so won’t that just mean I’m just hosted by someone else?

Or does “self host” just mean I can select a theme from various companies out there, place adverts etc and am less restricted?

Sorry, for the long/stupid ?, but many thanks if you have time to answer!

By: Devang

Devang — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:37:01 +0000

Thanks for this useful post.i have my blog at wordpress.com now i also want to shift from there..

Thanks again,

By: entuziasm

entuziasm — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:17:31 +0000

This post is very helpful thanks for that! I found some interesting posts about WordPress programming at http://www.wp-coder.com .

Thanks!

By: Tembang Lawas

Tembang Lawas — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:54:04 +0000

Very Nice post and very usefull for me thank

By: aRya Bayu

aRya Bayu — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:28:06 +0000

nice info

By: Crystal K.

Crystal K. — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:10:02 +0000

Good info! thank you!! Just what I needed

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By: Lolly

Lolly — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:47:25 +0000

Hi Kelly,

Which host are you using? If you are using Hostgator, you simply have to search php.ini using the search bar under your host’s control panel – http://www.yoururl.com/cpanel

Let me know if I can help with anything else.