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How to Host a Website - A Complete Beginners Guide

How to host your own website.

WordPress

The most popular choice for hosting a website. It is a content management system (CMS) that allows you to edit your website on the server that is hosting it.

Pros

  • Most popular option for hosting a website.
  • Many themes and plugins are available.
  • Free Open Source Software

Cons

  • Maintenance can be difficult and time consuming
  • Requires more expensive hosting

Shared Hosting

SiteGrounds Bluehost GoDaddy

Managed Hosting

Kinsta WPEngine

Static Sites

Hugo (What this site uses) Next.js Jekyll