Wordpress hosting is the most popular blogging platform available today, it is also being used as a platform to build websites. This is because of its simplicity to update and edit your content, a search conducted on Alexa March 2009 found Wordpress to be number 22 in there top 500 websites "globally".



Wordpress was created by a team of people from http://automattic.com/about/ the platform is "open source" which in simple terms means free, they are a few blogging platforms around and websites like blogger.com. Wordpress was started as a project for a few people and turned into the most popular platform in its category. The platform is free to download from http://www.wordpress.org in order to get the script "download" working you need whats called a host this basically runs the platform and without going into too much detail controls all the back-end.

Richard Metcalfe owner and founder of http://www.getoninter.net introduced wordpress hosting with 1 click installation this makes all the technical side of setting your wordpress blog, very simple indeed, simply click Wordpress in the control panel and follow the on screen instructions and within 5 minutes your Wordpress blog or website will be up and running. Wordpress was introduced as a open source project which means that any developer can add extensions, templates, add-ons etc the possibilities start to seem endless and with hundreds of thousands of people working on Wordpress around the world its hard to find a limitation to what you need.