Title: Self Hosting
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Self Hosting

 *  Resolved [opie111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opie111/)
 * (@opie111)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-hosting/)
 * I am not yet a wordpress.org user. I am probably going to buy i have a question
   before i buy hosting. Is there a way to self host a site? I heard there is some
   way you can use a computer and use it as your hosting. That as long as the computer
   is on it works? Is that **possible**?

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 *  [Nikki Blight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kionae/)
 * (@kionae)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-hosting/#post-2356679)
 * Certainly it’s possible. Most web servers are just older workstations sitting
   in a basement somewhere. It doesn’t take any special hardware to set up… just
   about anything can be turned into a server. The company I used to work for used
   a janky old Mac G4 no one else wanted as their primary web server for years before
   it finally died.
 * But it’s not exactly the easiest thing to do if you don’t have much experience.
   And it also means that when something goes wrong (WHEN, mind you… not if. Servers
   going down for one reason or another is a fact of life.), you’re pretty much 
   on your own.
 * If you’re interested in giving it a try, here’s a pretty good how-to:
    [http://www.dslwebserver.com/](http://www.dslwebserver.com/)
 * Personally, though, unless you actually *need* the level of control having your
   own server provides, you should really just save yourself the headache and get
   on a good shared host. Site5.com and Bluehost.com are two of the best, and they’re
   like $4 a month.
 *  Thread Starter [opie111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opie111/)
 * (@opie111)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-hosting/#post-2356691)
 * Ok. Thanks. Ill try it and if i cant figure it out ill try hosting.

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