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Just having a blogging platform and a domain name isn’t enough to create a blog. Your blog also needs to be hosted somewhere.

If your domain name is your blog’s address, your hosting is the land on which your blog is built.

Your blog needs to be available 24/7 from all around the world. This means storing your blog on a big computer owned by a web hosting company. Most web hosts can run popular blogging platform software, including WordPress, with ease.

How to Choose a Free Blogging Platform
When it comes to starting a blog for free, the first piece of really good news is that a number of (excellent) blogging platforms are free.

We’re going to run through five of the most popular free blogging sites: WordPress.org, WordPress.com, Wix, Weebly, and Blogger.

Note: You’ll also hear these called “website builders” or “content management systems.” For our purposes, all these mean the same thing.

WordPress.org
meet wordpress
WordPress.org—often just called “WordPress” or “self-hosted WordPress”—is the gold standard for blogging software.

It’s the platform I use to run RyRob.com … and it’s used by pretty much every large blog out there for its impressive functionality and performance.

WordPress.org is open-source, meaning that the core WordPress software is constantly being improved and added to by a whole community of volunteers and enthusiasts.

With WordPress.org, you get a huge degree of flexibility and freedom. It’s algeria phone number resource popular, so almost all web hosts (including budget ones) make it very easy to install and run the WordPress software for your blog.

While there are lots of paid extras you could add to your WordPress blog, like premium themes and plugins, you’ll also find lots of free themes and free plugins that you can use.

You can add new themes or plugins to your site at any time: to find some great ones to try out, take a look at my round-up of the best WordPress themes and my list of recommended WordPress plugins.

WordPress’s best-known ecommerce plugin, WooCommerce, is also free. This means that, if you want to set up an online store, creating a WordPress site using WordPress.org is a lot cheaper than using WordPress.com.

WordPress.org doesn’t offer web hosting, but recommends three great-value hosts: Bluehost, DreamHost, and SiteGround.

WordPress.com
WordPress.com is the commercial wing of WordPress. Like the other blogging platforms we’re going to look at next, it combines both blogging software and hosting. For this reason, you’ll sometimes hear it called “hosted WordPress.”