Domains and Hosting

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org self-hosted

WordPress is my life and my passion – I wouldn’t know what to do without it. I often recommend it, I often install it and I teach people about it. One of the question I often get asked by beginners is “what’s the difference between WordPress.com and this self hosted thing”? Let me explain.

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How to move WordPress from one server to another

It’s not as difficult as one might think, as this article explains: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress If however this means not a lot to you, or you have tried and it’s still not working, you should check out the following topics: How to backup your Database How to restore your Database Hope this helps

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What is a CRON Job?

Although I’ve been dealing with webshoting and webdesign since 1995, it took me a whilw to figure this one out. If you’re used to shared shosting packages, it’s likely that you’ve never come in contact with this. Hence, this article is aimed at people who don’t know what it is. As explained in Wikipedia: Cron [...]

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Hosting Providers

If you’re looking for hosting or domain registration, you’re spoilt for choice these days. Here are some to choose from, they all have different prices, so check and compare carefully. Easyspace 1 and 1 Daily.co.uk GoDaddy dotFM – great for multimedia domains like .fm A nifty tool to find a free .com, .org or .net [...]

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