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When I started my small business a little under a year ago I paid something like $200-$300 to set up my website on WordPress because I was familiar with it and had built sites on WP in the past. Although I had never paid for it before, I decided to go ahead and pony up the money. I run the DIVI theme on it, which I also paid for. My site uses video on the landing page and a few other pages. WordPress now wants to charge me another $300 for this year, or I can sign up for 2 years at $240/year. Is this absolutely necessary? Will my site lose significant functionality if I just don’t renew? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! TIA!
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There is a difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. WordPress.org is free to use but you still need hosting. If you get hosting from a place like Hostinger (that is who I personally use) they will transfer your site to their servers for free and it will be a lot cheaper; like $60 a year cheap.
There are, basically, three components of web presence.
* 1. Domain name – you register your domain at some of the domain regitrars (namecheap, namesilo etc)
* 2. DNS Service – (Cloudflare)
* 3. Site host – for beginner most user friendly is SiteGround.
Best politics is to have them separate, so you are not locked: you can always change one component without affecting another two. If you have to combine, 1 and 2 at same service, is kind of OK. Cloudflare is then fine choice.
Process is usually day or two.