: If you want to save yourself the pain of trying to host a website on your own computer and get a free wordpress website from Wordpress.com. If you want to host on your own computer (windows)

@Candy875

If you want to save yourself the pain of trying to host a website on your own computer and get a free wordpress website from Wordpress.com.

If you want to host on your own computer (windows) download WAMP a free web server that is well supported and easy to configure. Next step would be to make the WAMP server accessible to your network, and if you router supports the feature of dynamic DNS, get a service like dyndns. Then you have to forward internet requests to you local computer.

Your internet connection speed will be a bottleneck, so if you are using the a lot of internet bandwidth this will slow access down to you self hosted website.

As a whole wordpress.com would be simpler to setup, quicker to setup, more likely to be faster to access and more reliable.

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