I want to create a new site on wordpress, but I’m afraid I wont be able to move it to another host later. (I had a bad experience with geocities before.) Is wordpress any different?
I want to create a new site on wordpress, but I’m afraid I wont be able to move it to another host later. (I had a bad experience with geocities before.) Is wordpress any different?
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There’s a plugin to back up your database (I have mine backed up and emailed to me every night) and the only other thing you’ll need is WordPress itself, which is always a free download. Anything you may have uploaded to the site you must have a copy of to have uploaded it, so that’s not a problem either.
There is no guarantee for free services.
WordPress is only a blogging site. You can move to another host any time.
Yes, it’s always possible to backup your blog and migrate it later, but I highly recommend that you don’t do this. Why?
I assume that you’ll care about your blog and your readers and possibly ad revenue so here are some points to consider:
After migrating from a free host or wordpress.com you’re very likely going to have a change in the domain name, this is going to destroy your PageRank and your previous links, backlinks, pages indexed in Google, everything will no longer work and you’ll essentially be starting over. Also, anyone that bookmarked your blog or subscribed to your RSS Feed will be screwed.
You likely won’t be able to setup a redirect to your new blog URL, I suppose you could leave your old blog up for awhile with a notice of your new location for readers, but not for too long or you will have a duplicate content problem to deal with.
I highly recommend doing it right the first time around and getting an actually host and domain for your blog. I’ve written an article about web hosting that might be useful to you:
http://www.bryanhadaway.com/web-hosting-best-vs-worst/
Thanks, Bryan
Sure you can move, but like Bryan has said you do not want to lose your visitors, pageranks and more importantly, you time to reconfigure everything.
Why not start with a very cheap web host with cPanel one-click WordPress installer. You can get a cPanel hosting like Hostgator for like a penny. See the source below to learn more.
Good luck.
You can export all of your posts, comments, and category from the dashboard and import it later from the new self hosted blog.
But I think, if you’re planning to move it to a self hosted blog, why don’t you just start making your own blog. It’s not that expensive you know. Buy a domain for $8, buy a cheap hosting about $1 a month (you can move anytime you want to a better hosting service), that’s it. You’ll have your very own WP blog and no one can suspend your blog.
Good luck