How to Make your own self-hosted Wordpress Blog for free

Wordpress has been a popular platform used most for blogging. Having your very own Wordpress blog is like one having the coolest blog in cyberspace. The hindrance: Money to purchase your very own domain name and webhosting. Now this lens can help you with that problem as well as how we setup Wordpress
on this very FREE webhost that we are using right now.

Before we create our very own Wordpress blog, First we must have our very own domain name and web host.

Free Domain
Registering for a .com/.net domain name at the least costs you $10 depending on where do you register your domain name.
For Wordpress newbies, a free domain service like CO.CC can be an good alternative. With co.cc you can have your very own domain named
"www.yourdomain.co.cc" which closer to the real .com site but I still works.


Free Webhost with DNS support
Next, We will register for a webhost with Domain Name Server support (DNS). Having a DNS support means we can use our registered domain name instead of a subdomain name for our Wordpress blog. A usual free host usually don't have a DNS support because this kind of service are usually reserved for paid hosting but I found this one free hosting that support DNS which is call 000webhost.

Here are the some reasons why I recommend this Free hosting

- 350 MB of Disk Space, 100 GB Bandwidth
- Host your own domain (http://www.yourdomain.com)
- cPanel Powered Hosting
- FTP and Web based File Manager
- PHP, MySQL, Perl, CGI,
- Fantastico Software Installer.

1.)Register your desired CO.CC account by click this link.

2.)Register an account by clicking thislink. and enter your registered co.cc domain name.



3.)Go to your webhost's Cpanel and access the Account Details Overview and copy the nameserver details.



4.)On your co.cc account click Setup button under the Nameserver(DNS) Service type and enter the nameserver details you copied from you webhost then press "Setup". You can't use your web host for approximately 48 hours due to the propagation process of the domain name to your webhost.

There are 2 ways to setup Wordpress, Manual Installation or using Fantastico Installer. For newbies, I would recommend the later because It only takes a few steps and you have your own Wordpress blog in a few minutes.

For the purpose of this tutorial, I will use my Wordpress blog called "Crafynezz" as a demonstration site.

1.) Login to you 000webhost account and Click on "Go to CPanel" link of your webhost.


2.) On Your Cpanel Look for Fantastico Autoinstaller which is located under "Software / Services".


3.) Under Wordpress click "New installation"


4.) Type in you user name and password and click INSTALL Wordpress.


5.) Wait for about 2 minutes for the installation to process to finish.


6.) After the installation process is done, Click View installation details so you can see the Admin link for your Wordpress

7.) Click on the the admin link and login to your Wordpress admin area and configure your wordpress blog to your style.