Putting WordPress on my server vs. using wordpress.com?

www.remarpro.com and .COM don’t have too much to do with eachother so/and I don’t think features are mutually exchangable.

You can install WP, make a link on your website and try to make WP thus that it “looks and feels” like the website (or easier: the other way around ?? ).

Am I losing anything by not using wordpress.com, such as the ability to have people discover my blogs, the blog search engines finding me, etc?

@derekbeck Yeap.

https://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/wordpresscom-vs-wordpressorg/

Thanks for the replies. So here’s what is making this really confusing: https://wordpress.com/notable-users/

Are these users, like CNN, using wordpress.com? Or have they installed the wordpress software onto their server?

Are these users, like CNN, using wordpress.com?

Yes, they are using WordPress.com.

How is it that CNN’s page then looks like it is part of cnn.com?

You can install on your server for sure, but you can also just install it on WordPress and create a theme matching with your website css.

How is it that CNN’s page then looks like it is part of cnn.com?

Magic.

And what about how the blog has cnn.com as the web url in the browser bar?

Just to be sure, so, for example, https://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html , which appears to be on the nytimes.com server, is actually a wordpress.com blog that appears to be on nytimes.com?

Again, Magic. ??

Seriously, you speak as if it’s impossible to do this sort of thing, when in reality it would only take about 20 minutes to set up.

The site https://icanhascheezburger.com runs on WordPress.com too. This is not hard to do.

Big corporations like CNN pay to have WordPress.com host their blog sites using their software. Not difficult to grasp here, man.

So they’ve basically paid to have custom css and have a subdomain pointing to the nameservers on wordpress.com?

So, “why” would cnn use wordpress.com? Isn’t it less cost, particularly if you have your own server, to run www.remarpro.com’s code on your own server?

PS: Thanks for all of your replies, sorry I’m a rookie ??

Isn’t it less cost, particularly if you have your own server, to run www.remarpro.com’s code on your own server?

Not necessarily. CNN’s blog needs to be (relatively) bug free, software maintained, and highly available. Maintaining that may cost CNN less to use Automattic’s service.

CNN could staff people to do the patching, maintenance, etc. but by using WordPress.COM they get to concentrate on the content and the presentation (CSS). This leaves Automattic to handled the back end software, the servers and keep it all running smoothly.

They are part of the VIP program which cost about $500 a month per blog with a startup fee of $600 which enables them to use custom css.