How to test WordPress

February 20, 2010

Wordpress

Are you a blogger using Blogspot(Blogger) and would like to change to WordPress ? Of course there are many advantages of WordPress but a common complaint of WordPress users is that WordPress is very difficult to use. This confusion could be avoided if you could test WordPress before paying for your web host. Now you can !

Lets compare the pricing between hosting blogger and wordpress:

  • Blogger is free. For a domain you could pay approx 10$ a year.
  • WordPress is free. For the web host for hosting wordpress you could pay approx 5$ per month or 60$ per year + 10$ per year for domain.

This means you’ll pay an extra 60$ per year for hosting WordPress. Is this really worth it ? Why not test wordpress before using it..

What are the main advantages of WordPress over Blogger ?

  • Your own server
  • You own your blog. Unlike Blogger where Google owns your blog
  • Control over your domain files

Considering these it may seem that WordPress is easy to use. But starting a WordPress blog itself can take hours while Blogger blog ban be made in a few minutes. Also WordPress requires web hosting which will cost you while Blogger can be used free with its sub-domain .blogspot.com

But now, you can get your WordPress blog free !

The best free web host I’ve found yet is http://byethost.com/
You can make your account for free and host WordPress. This hosting gives you all the features you need to host WordPress.

You’ll get a domain like user.byethost14.com and you could take sub-domains like domain.iblogger.org ….

I’ve already tried it and I’m hosting WordPress absolutely free on http://funpclife.iblogger.org/

In case you want to host wordpress but don’t want a domain, then you could use the free sub-domain itself ! Here’s your free WordPress with a cool domain like domain.iblogger.org

Try it out and make sure you like wordpress before using it.

Would trying WordPress be worth the time taken ? Give us your comments….

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    • http://chaaps.com Chethan Thimmappa

      Hey Good,… But why So Much Success, when you could easily have domain.wordpress.com which has the same wordpress dashboard!

      • http://funpclife.blogspot.com/ Siddhu

        Well you cannot have plugins and widgets, neither can you upload your own themes… This is to test if you are good in hosting wordpress with your own webhost…
        .-= Siddhu´s last blog ..Comodo releases its new browser – The Dragon =-.

    • http://www.loudable.com Suhasini

      I would say wordpress is any time better than this , I have seen lot of people complaining over blogger.
      .-= Suhasini´s last blog ..Problems in Surfing Facebook =-.

      • http://funpclife.blogspot.com/ Siddhu

        Everyone has their own likes and dislikes.. I find WordPress hard to use but much better than blogger…
        .-= Siddhu´s last blog ..Comodo releases its new browser – The Dragon =-.

        • http://www.socialmovo.blogspot.com Shaquille Ray

          Siddhu , i am going to test this out for the next hour or so…

          But i am really interested into what is the monthly percent of there server uptime. I couldn’t find anything about this

          • http://www.socialmovo.blogspot.com Shaquille Ray

            I found it, its 99.99% uptime per month

            • http://funpclife.blogspot.com/ Siddhu

              That’s a good rate (I think).. I’ve tried many free hosts, and I’ve noticed the ByetHost server down at many times, but its the best free host I know yet…

              By the way, I thought the uptime was less than 99.99% per month… Its down quite a long time… Today itself when I was using it was down for 2-3 mins…
              .-= Siddhu´s last blog ..Browser Chooser to manage your browsers easily =-.

        • http://www.socialmovo.blogspot.com Shaquille Ray

          @Siddhu thats what there website said, maybe they have over exaggerated there own product.

          Btw, i am trying to test it out, how do i install WordPress?

    • http://www.technoskillonline.com sudharsan @ technoskillonline

      No doubt WordPress is the best compared to blogspot…
      But For a new blogger blogspot is the best one ….

    • http://techchunks.com TechChunks

      After having used both Blogger and WordPress, I must say that I love WordPress!

      I’d not say that what you have explained here is “free hosting” in true sense, but it can be better than the blogspot blogs!
      .-= TechChunks´s last blog ..TechChunks After 5 Months of Blogging (Lessons Learned, Achievements and Blog Statistics) =-.

    • http://www.navapavan.com NavaPavan

      Its already proved wp is better than blogger with several reasons

    • http://www.henweekends.net/ hen night

      Good news — you can force a “hard crop” to 150×120. The example used in this post isn’t ideal, because WordPress can’t (yet) do on-the-fly resizing/cropping. What it’s doing if you use the above example is browser-resizing. And if you’re doing that then no, you can’t specify a hard crop.

      • http://www.shaquilleray.com Shaquille Ray

        I loved wordpress so much i paid for a Monthly Ultimate subscribtion, and moved my site to wordpress
        .-= Shaquille Ray´s last blog ..YouTube Update (shaquillerayau) =-.

        • http://www.shaquilleray.com Shaquille Ray

          Monthly Ultimate subscribtion for web hosting
          .-= Shaquille Ray´s last blog ..YouTube Update (shaquillerayau) =-.

      • http://funpclife.blogspot.com/ Siddhu

        actually i did not use wordpress visual writer… i write all my posts in html format….. but ya hard crop would be a cool feature.. will try it out….
        .-= Siddhu´s last blog ..Browser Chooser to manage your browsers easily =-.

    • http://www.henweekends.net/ hen do

      Saw your blog post here and grabbed the patched version and it got it working. The only issue I have now is the bit.ly plugin causes a white screen of death and blocks the twitter push (but the post goes out to WP itself).

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