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WordPress Blog Hosting: WordPress.com or Self-Hosted?

Idaconcpts

Given that WordPress hosts 59,914,568 as of 09/25/2011 and that over 301 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages each month on WordPress.com-hosted blogs (data from WordPress Stats ), it is not a surprise that many users around the world have chosen WordPress as their CMS of choice. Customization. Technical Know-How.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

–Sean As more and more new sites hit the Web on a daily basis, the adoption of WordPress as a content management system seems to keep on growing. Do good plugins really slow down my site? If my WordPress site is slow, is it my host, my plugins, or my theme?

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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

Google is hosting the very articles that contain links that Google is telling us that they want removed. That’s right, in what can only be a unique twist of irony, Google is playing web host to thousands of low quality spammy articles, the exact same type of articles that Google wants us to remove. Oh, the irony. Oh, the irony!

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Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org: Which Is The Best Blog Platform

Social Media Marketing

Wordpress is one of the most popular blogging and web hosting platforms. There is a vast difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com provides a downloadable web hosting package that lets you customize the code and maintain the site tweaking its technical aspects.

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Apple Owns Mystery Domains, Hosted on Amazon Cloud Server

Bill Hartzer

owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple’s own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon’s cloud server. And they’ve been buying these nonsensical domain names and setting up web hosting for at least 6 months now. Both of these sites resolve to an Amazon Linux AMI Test Page.

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How to import Posterous to self-hosted WordPress

The Way of the Web

We tend to always recommend self-hosting if your site is important to you and your business, partly because third-party services can close or change, and partly because it gives you a lot more control over backups. Setting up self-hosted WordPress: To set up your site, you need 2 things.

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10 social links, posts and sites you might have missed

Direct Marketing Observations

Each week I try to put out a post that highlights some of the sites, posts, and resources in the social media space that have been shared by others and in which I think are worthy of sharing with you. Some are great posts, others are sites or links that just resonate with me, and still others will make you better at what you do.

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