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I’m a newbie when it comes to creating websites and currently don’t have the resources to hire someone to develop one for me, so I have been doing some research on how to do it myself.
[Wordpress.org]) seems like the logical choice (with Knownhost), however, with no experience I am afraid I won’t be able to set it up correctly. Since the Business plan for .com offers the possibility to use plugins, should I just opt for that option?My website would be more of a blog type situation, where I would reccomend products to other people. So I wouldn’t sell anything myself, people would just be redirected to the sellers website after clicking on the products that I have listed on my blog.
With my limited experience, I am leaning more towards the business plan for .com, seeing that I would also have plugins available and from my understanding I shouldn’t have limitations on SEO either, correct?
Thank you for sharing your opinions on this matter, really appreciate it!
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Installing [WordPress.org]) yourself on any hosting platform (apart from [WordPress.com](https://WordPress.com)) is incredibly easy. Most feature a one-click installation for WordPress, which takes a matter of minutes to set up. Doing this will give you a proper WordPress website, with full access to do whatever you want (instead of being locked into a cut-down version of WordPress by using [WordPress.com](https://WordPress.com)).
Please read the pinned post on this subreddit about the differences before doing anything.
My advise, stay away from [WordPress.com]). Ask in r/hosting about suitable web hosting companies that provide one-click installs for WordPress.
WordPress is not particularly difficult to learn, many many of us have done it. But it does take some amount of time and effort to gain the knowledge that you need to install and maintain a WordPress site. Do you value that knowledge? Or would you rather just work on your business/content?
[WordPress.com Business/eCommerce]) plans are what’s called “managed” WordPress hosting (other examples are [Pressable.com]), WPengine, Kinsta, etc). There is a strong argument for going with managed WordPress hosting for a beginner. Yes, it costs slightly more than standard hosting through Hostinger/Knownhost/etc. But it gives you a host who handles backups, security, maintenance, updates, etc. And perhaps more importantly, will have a WordPress specific support team that can help you figure out stuff like Google Analytics, Google Search Console, etc. when you are just trying to get going.
You can always move to different hosting down the road as your WordPress skills improve and/or your site plans change. But to me, it’s well worth paying a couple hundred dollars more at the start to have things get rolling smoothly. There’s already so much work creating content or building a store that I don’t understand why people make it any harder than they have to if they can possibly afford to avoid that frustration. Our time has value.