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Thread resurrection....

After cravenly deciding that a Facebook page would be sufficient, I left the idea of a website for a bit. But now I've bitten the bullet and made one using wordpress.

It's a .com site, not a .org, so hosted on wordpress's server, and without the chance to use plug-ins (if I'm understanding this correctly). However the site is intended to convey information and nothing fancier. A table on one of the pages would have been handy, but I can manage without - that seemed far less faff than trying to work out how to get it hosted on the small amount of server space I 'rent' via 123-reg.

However the wordpress address is mywebsitename.wordpress.com, and I would prefer it to be mywebsitename.uk (or other suffix). And viewers will see some ads (although I don't yet know how intrusive this would be).

And looking further, I see that 123-reg (and others) offer Wordpress hosting.

So I have several options - just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on possible pitfalls etc. I don't have the time (or, to be honest, much inclination) to spend ages on technicalities - it took me a while and much faffing to work out wordpress!

1) I can buy a domain name I want for £7 a year. If I do this, can I then use this address to 'point' to the wordpress site, without having to do anything else?

2) I can buy the wordpress premium plan, for £7 a month, which gets me my own domain name and no ads, and also more space, custom designs, etc - but I don't need the 'and also...' bits.

3) 123-reg will host a single wordpress site for £5 a month (and I read this as allowing me to use my own web address). Only 1 wordpress site allowed, and only 1 GB of storage compared to the 3 GB with the free wordpress site, but they say it is easy to set up. 1&1 appear to do something similar for only £1 a month for the first year but then a bit dearer than 123-reg thereafter. I'm sure lots of others do similar hosting deals for similar prices. And I don't even need 1 GB of space - the site is text and some photos.

Of the above options, 1 seems the easiest and cheapest, and also seems to be something I can do now, and then if I decide the adverts are too intrusive I can still swap to a wordpress premium plan or a 3rd party hosting package? But if I do change in the future, I'd want to still keep the same web address.

If it makes any difference to the advice, the site is to advertise a holiday cottage. The wordpress website says that even their .com sites automatically have sitemaps and metadata - which I vaguely understand are things that help search engines to find the site. Would this still be the case for options 1 and 3 above?

Thanks for reading if you've got this far! Any advice welcome... (and hopefully I will understand the answers!)
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Location
Hamtun
Have a look at www.switchweb.co.uk
I used them for my site. UK based, by a chap called Pete. Good price and help if you need it. There are free Web building tools databases etc.
 
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