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WordPress Hosting for Free

As in the best type of free – free as in beer. Worked. Eventually:

First off WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to futer enough, especially with any PHP so that’s out. Then began googling free wordpress host (as you tend to do) and first result chosen was dreamhostapps. No good they only give you a restricted version of the wp-admin interface that prevents you from editing any script.

So I guessed what I really wanted was free cpanel hosting. That usually comes with the excellent fantastico script autoinstaller. 000webhost.com were first up with what I thought was a cpanel host. Actually just another case of false advertising on the web – they give you a restricted own brand control panel that although contains the button for Fantastico, once clicked you are told they are ‘upgrading’ it with no fixed date for go live.

this is gonna take some work, so throwaway email address to hand, I began bumping off every part of the web…
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