Creating a WordPress Blog [Theory]
This article is a translation of an article written in Korean, so it may contain mistranslations and incorrect information.
I considered several platforms to start a blog and decided on WordPress!
In fact, I first tried to do it as a blogger, but it wasn’t pretty, so…
WordPress was running my homepage for work. However, I didn’t know how to utilize it well, so I made it roughly and operated it, but this time I wanted to do a little better, so I decided to run it with WordPress!
Operating a blog with WordPress is often praised for its “flexibility,” isn’t it?
Before we explain how to use WordPress to create a blog, let’s understand what a WordPress blog is.
- Installed : How to install WordPress on your own computer and host it yourself
- Subscription : Borrow a computer with WordPress installed from a provider
Running a blog with WordPress can be broken down into two parts: installation and signup.
As I understand it, this is how it works. In fact, I don’t think many people who want to run a blog have studied computers, and I also study computers, but I don’t understand it correctly because I have a different field, so I may be wrong.
1. Installed
Installed WordPress is a way to install WordPress on your own computer and deliver your homepage to anyone who wants to visit your blog.
In simple terms, I’m a restaurant owner (blog) and my customers (visitors) place orders and I personally serve them the finished food (blog). The problem is that the blog needs to be open 24 hours a day, but how is the food supposed to be served when I’m not there (when my computer is off)? That’s where the subscription comes in.
2. Subscription
Subscription is a concept where a company lends you a computer with WordPress installed. Since you’re renting, you’ll have to pay a monthly fee (you’ll also have to pay for installation, but more on that later).
It’s hard for me to put food out 24 hours a day, so I’m working with a company that can put food out for me. Maybe it’s a bad example, but there are 24-hour meal kit stores nowadays, and it’s like, if I put cooked meal kits in the store, people can pick them up.
Since I don’t own the MealKit store, I’d have to pay for it instead of renting it and using it, which is why the subscription model requires a monthly payment.
Subscription-based providers include Bluehost, WordPress, and others.
The great thing about going with a subscription is that it’s a cheap and easy way to host WordPress. You can also get help from the company if you run into problems.
Why would you use an installer when you could just go with a subscription because you can use WordPress for three months for less?
I thought it was because of my computer’s specs. Of course, this doesn’t matter if you don’t have a lot of visitors or posts like I do now. But when my blog grows, it might be a little bit of a problem? I hope so.
When you’re just starting out, a subscription plan can be cheaper. However, once your blog has grown to a certain point, it’s cheaper to go with a subscription plan than a setup plan.
If you’re thinking, “I’m installing this on my own computer, why are you calling it cheap?” then you’re reading really closely, and thank you.
That’s right, installable means that you install it on your computer to run your blog, but like I said, you have to keep your computer on 24/7 and deliver it every time someone visits your blog. Everything happens when you have a lot of people coming to your blog. If I have to write a blog post, and I have too many visitors, my computer might get overwhelmed, so I buy another computer, which is usually called a server computer.
I buy a server computer to run my blog, I have an expensive internet plan, I know how to set up a network, and it’s great. But in general, we can’t.
So we’re renting a computer for a server, and what makes this possible is what we often hear about as cloud services, and there’s a number of services within cloud services, and one of them is renting a server computer. So we don’t actually have a computer, but we’re renting a computer, and we’re able to connect to the computer that I’m using and use another computer.
If you install WordPress on a borrowed server computer and run your blog on it, you’re still paying for it every month, because you’re renting a computer.
If you want to rent a server computer to run as an installation, you can use Amazon Web Services, which is famous for its cloud services. Prices vary, but for around $7, I think I have the specs to last a long time.
If you just look at the specs, the installed version is incomparably better. However, there are many things that you need to set up yourself, so it may be a little difficult for those who did not study computer science, so the initial barrier to entry is high.
AWS Lightsail Specification
Each plan has a different amount of memory, number of CPUs, disk size, and transfer rate, but I’ll give you a general idea without going into detail.
Memory
There’s a device called RAM. Think of it this way: the more RAM you have, the faster and more things you can do. So if I have a lot of people on my blog at the same time, my computer has a lot of work to do, and if I have a lot of RAM (memory), it can handle it.
CPU
CPU! Just like memory, more is better, because the more brains you have processing things, the faster you can get things done. This is a long story, so pass!
Disk size
The SSD disk is the web capacity. This is the amount of storage that we might have on a machine that we rent from AWS, and the lowest plan is 20GB, so that’s a big difference from 1GB on a subscription.
Transfer rate
I think this is a similar concept to traffic. I could be wrong, but the only difference with traffic is that if I write a post and save it to the server computer, that’s going to generate traffic, and that’s included.
So there you have it, the theory behind WordPress blogging, and while you may not need it if you’re just getting started with your own WordPress blog, it might make things a little easier if you know what you’re getting into.
I’ve been using AWS LightSail to run my WordPress blog, and I’ve created an installable blog using AWS LightSail. In the next post, I’ll explain how to create a blog with AWS LightSail.
- https://www.bluehost.com/cs/special/wordpress-campaigns?utm_campaign=wordpress_PPC&utm_source=googleads&utm_medium=genericsearch&channelid=P61C101S570N0B5578A2D4499E0000V435&ds_k=wordpress&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiuC2BhDSARIsALOVfBIym-BCxlVw8-73aIMYwRrK2NDkZ4EaJRnibuNWTrqNPm2E_fBXubgaAn30EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds ↩︎
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