Can someone please explain the process to host wordpress content ?

[mikeyw]

Hi,

I'm about to purchase domain name and hosting and the create content using wordpress but i'm unclear how it all hangs together ?

Do i download wordpress to my pc, create some content then upload to the hosted area ? or do it work directly on the hosted area itself ?

What's a reasonable price to host a basic wordpress website for 12months ?

Seems quite a learning curve setting all this up !

Someone suggested using aws - is this doable for the layman ?

Tia,
Mike.

 

[Harriers9]

£14.99 per year with Lite hosting on Tsohost. Gives you 500mb space, 5GB a month bandwidth and 10 mailboxes. 3 db's and you'll use one for the WP that you can install yourself from the C Panel.

Any problems just contact support.They'll sort you out in minutes

 

[Sam Tip]

Hello Mike. I use the free service but pay WordPress per year to allow me to customise text and colour. I write my essays and prepare the images before going online and compiling each post. It does take a while to familiarise yourself with all you can do with the theme that best suits you, but it's quite flexible. Sometimes I use the app on this tablet but only for text updates. It really needs a computer or laptop/notebook to cover all the angles.

I can get my page or post the way I want it, save it as I go along before publishing it online for the world to ignore! But it's satisfying work. I'm guessing the full package still means putting together your prepared content while you're online.

 

[Broric]

The software (wordpress) is installed on to the server. The server will also need software capable of hosting the database which is separate from the wordpress files. Every time you interact with wordpress it'll read/write to the database.

Any content you create (aside from media files) will be contained in the database, i.e. Text, articles, comments, etc. The database will also contain all your Wordpress settings, etc.

You typically write the content through the Wordpress browser interface and it gets added to the database so you don't really do anything locally (you can of course write it in Word, etc and then paste it into Wordpress if you prefer working that way).

That's a simplified version of what happens but hopefully it gives you an idea (and shows backing up your database is VERY important, more so than your actual Wordpress files).

 

[andrewc]

You install wordpress on a internet based server as part of a hosting package. You access the software via a web browser and it stores the information in a database and shows the necessary pages to visitors to your website.