Thursday, July 31, 2014

Cons of Wordpress.com? Disadvantages of WordPress.com?

Cons Of WordPress.com?

Cheap WordPress Hosting as low as $1.95/month


WordPress it the biggest platform for hardcore bloggers! because you can customise it any way you like it without any restrictions or any limitations (at least in paid versions or Self hosted). Many bloggers who are professional bloggers are shifting to WordPress because of freedom and well they can pay money to host the blog. WordPress is also the expensive platform to host and work with because of the price on Templates, Domain adding, Space, Hosting, Custom domain mapping etc. The prices starts with $99/month! on the famous host like wordpress.com and that does not stop there.
They actually have price for anything and everything. You cannot even put simple banners from your advertisers unless you are approved by the giants Wordpress.com.




What are the biggest disadvantages of Wordpress.com hosting? You can see the disadvantages of Wordpress.com hosting:-



Disadvantages Of Wordpress.com:-




  1. No 3rd party Advertisements! You have to get approved like Adsense to earn from you blog on wordpress.com until then you cannot earn a cent and cannot host 3rd party scripts and advertisement. Even after a hard work they can reject you like that and you cannot do anything about it!

  2. No custom templates! If you are hosting you blog on Wordpress.com you know that you have to pay for upgrade to add a custom template or theme. So unless you upgrade you will have to stick with the templates they give you out for free or pay for a template that you don't like.

  3. Cannot add your own domain! You cannot add a domain that you already own instead they make you buy a domain for $18 a year! which is quite expensive! as compared to the Register your domain names from $0.48. If you have a domain you have to pay them $13/year to attach a domain which is called custom domain mapping.

  4. No eCommerce support in free version or paid version of $99/year. Which is quite a rip off.

  5. No premium themes in paid version of $99/year.

  6. Only 13 GB storage! This is a modern time and a little file can be of 1 GB easily so why so little storage in Paid version? Nowadays you can get unlimited hosting plans if you pay for the hosting!

  7. Too expensive to work with! If you are not a rich guy and you are trying to make ends meet then you will find hard to manage the blog! See the chart below to see how they are ripping off people.

  8. Business Edition is even a big rip off! $299 for business edition? what are they giving? VPS servers? 

  9. Custom design costs $30 per blog! per year! You can only customize CSS but not the php or template!




How They are ripping  In Comparison?



Wordpress.Com



Actual Price?/On Self Hosted?



Domain Purchasing?

$18 Per Year Only!

$0.48 per Year Only!

Adding Purchased Domain?

$13 Per Year Only!

Free!

Custom Design?

$30 Per Year!

Free!

3rd Party Advertisements?

No!

Yes as much as you like!

Adding Custom plugins or Widgets?

No!

Yes! As Much As You Like!

Hosting?

$99 per year including all above things!


Total Price/Year

$99 per year without themes and customization.

$24 hosting/year+$ 0.48 domain/year=$24.48/year only!





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