There are many ways to host a blog, and as Financial Bloggers we pride ourselves on running a blog on the cheap. We❤️ Linux!
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Hosting WordPress: Option 1 : Free : Blogger or Blogspot
Yes we could certainly go with blogger and blogspot for free and not have to worry about hosting wordpress on your own, but you give up a bit of control and predictability with that. (And technically it’s not WordPress). In the end we decided to host on our own linux cloud virtual machines.
Hosting WordPress: Option 2: Paid : Digital Ocean
One of the best deals I could find out there was Digital Ocean, running their 1 CPU / 1 GB RAM / 25 GB Storage Virtual Machine for $6/month. Once you have it setup, download and install wordpress and send traffic to your blog. Use a free domain name registrar, or sign-up with hover for domain name hosting on your own, but that will cost another 10$-$20/year for your own custom domain.
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Not the cheapest virtual machine in the mix, but reasonable for our needs right now.
Hosting WordPress: Option 3 : Vultr Virtual Machine
If you really want a deal, look at vultr and get the $2.50/month instance with 1 CPU, .5 GB RAM, and spin up an ipv6 only for the cheapest of the cheap VMs. We use one of theirs for a test instance for trying out new themes, plugins, and ideas before promoting to our production instance.
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This modest virtual machine on Digital Ocean can run for hours and hours without problems running WordPress and Apache.
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(Unless a nasty robot attacks you). WordPress is free, just download it, host it, and pay for the monthly VM Cloud Hosting.
Hosting WordPress Option 4 : WordPress.com Hosting
You can currently do this for free, or as cheap as $4.99/month
Now we need to get back to work and continue on our journey writing about financial freedom.
I want to thank you for your assistance and this post. It’s been great.
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