Title: Practice without a Web host?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Practice without a Web host?

 *  [SimonLa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonla/)
 * (@simonla)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practice-without-a-web-host/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m starting a small business and I’m looking into building my own Website with
   WordPress. I won’t launch the business for several months and I don’t have much
   of a budget, so I’d rather not pay for hosting services until I start offering
   my services. However, I want to experiment with WordPress now, so the Website
   can be ready when the time comes.
 * Is there a way to design your Website without a Web host (i.e. offline)? It doesn’t
   really matter to me if I have to do everything all over again once I do get a
   host. I just want to learn how to build the Website that I’ll want to use (design
   my themes, etc.).

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 *  [Idiom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbrey/)
 * (@brianbrey)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practice-without-a-web-host/#post-5089684)
 * there are a number of really great applications to run a local web server on 
   your computer for free. Check out: [Phaser ](http://phaser.io/getting-started-js2.php)
   or [MAMP ](http://www.mamp.info/en/) (My personal favorite). There are a few 
   others out there.
 *  [wplm37](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wplm37/)
 * (@wplm37)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practice-without-a-web-host/#post-5089764)
 * Be sure to check out:
    For Macs: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP)
 * For WIndows:
    [http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-windows-computer-using-wamp/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-windows-computer-using-wamp/)
 *  Thread Starter [SimonLa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonla/)
 * (@simonla)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practice-without-a-web-host/#post-5089783)
 * Thank you (both of you)! I’ll try this out.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/practice-without-a-web-host/#post-5089783)
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