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Hi, I'd like a little advice on web hosting services.

 

I quite like using Wordpress (blog site) as a way to input my own content, but I now realise that the free-to-use service (wordpress.com) has some serious limitations when it comes to being noticed and ranked by search engines- even though it hosts the content for free which was great.

 

I'd like to use the paid service (wordpress.org), but then I have to sort out my own web hosting for my content, which seems fine when the costs are added together.

 

I doubt it's ever going to be a massive site and there are a lot of deals out there from players all over the planet, but I'd like if at all possible to use someone I can ring up in this country when I don't understand the technical stuff and need a grown-up.

 

I've got a couple of website domain names registered with a firm called Namehog, I've used them in the past and would have happily used them again, but it seems that they've gone downhill since a takeover early in the year.

 

Any suggestions....?

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Hi, I'd like a little advice on web hosting services.

 

I quite like using Wordpress (blog site) as a way to input my own content, but I now realise that the free-to-use service (wordpress.com) has some serious limitations when it comes to being noticed and ranked by search engines- even though it hosts the content for free which was great.

 

I'd like to use the paid service (wordpress.org), but then I have to sort out my own web hosting for my content, which seems fine when the costs are added together.

 

I doubt it's ever going to be a massive site and there are a lot of deals out there from players all over the planet, but I'd like if at all possible to use someone I can ring up in this country when I don't understand the technical stuff and need a grown-up.

 

I've got a couple of website domain names registered with a firm called Namehog, I've used them in the past and would have happily used them again, but it seems that they've gone downhill since a takeover early in the year.

 

Any suggestions....?

 

Why exactly is it that you believe you can't continue using a wordpress.com hosted website?

 

If you let your domain name point to your current <business>.wordpress.com hosted website, I don't see any reason why that would be any less search-engine friendly than if you host it somewhere else.

 

Read this article about how to link you custom domain to your wordpress.com hosted website (blog): Domains — Support — WordPress.com

 

If you don't trust Namehog with your domain registrations/DNS, you can probably redelegate to some other free DNS service.

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