Page.ly | Full WordPress Power Without Hosting Nightmares
Are you wanting to start a new WordPress-powered website, but need more power and flexibility than WordPress.com offers? WordPress.com is a great place to start out blogging, and it even works great for simple, small business websites, but if you want to take advantage of the ecosystem of amazing themes and plugins available for WordPress, you’ll have to move to self-hosted WordPress.org. This means you’ll need to find a hosting company, install WordPress, and then configure it to be as secure as possible. It’s not too hard if you’re a geek, but if you’re just wanting a website that just works, it’ll likely take way more configuration and tweaking than you’ll want.
Enter Page.ly. Page.ly is a dedicated WordPress.org hosting service that let’s you setup a full WordPress website in minutes. It’s as easy purchasing a book from Amazon; simply enter your info, and seconds later your WordPress site will be setup. And it’s not limited like WordPress.com; you’ve got the full power of WordPress.org at your fingertips, running on secure FireHost with nighly backups. You won’t need to setup MySQL databases, change .htaccess files, or even install standard plugins … everything’s setup for you and maintained automatically! WordPress is famous for being easy to install, but it’s only easy to install if you know what you’re doing; otherwise it can be rather difficult.
So how does it really work? Check out this video from Page.ly to see how easy it is to setup a new WordPress-powered site:
That’s easy! Signup, get extra premium themes and features, add some posts, and you’re set! Now, if you already know the ins and outs of running webapps, or want to learn more and put your knowledge to the test, then running your own WordPress setup on a hosting account (such as DreamHost) may be the best option. But most users simply want to get a website up and running, and don’t care about the technical details. Page.ly is a great option for this. You get the power and simplicity of WordPress without the headache of managing a hosting service and keeping your site secure. Page.ly costs $14.95/month, which for full hosting, support, and backup is not a bad price. But, you just might not have to even pay that, because Page.ly is currently running a 1st year birthday giveaway, including 2 free iPads and several free-for-life Page.ly accounts. Head over to their blog for more info, so you can get a shot at a free site and an iPad! Or, if you’d like to go ahead and get your new site on Page.ly, feel free to Signup Today!
P.S. - I haven’t personally tried it out (though I’d love to if I won the contest ;) ), so let me know how Page.ly works for your! Here at Techinch I aim to make technology simpler for everyone, and Page.ly has definitely made WordPress.org simpler to use. That’s always a good thing!
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