According to the WordPress CODEX:
[] WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform ["an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL"]
[] Platform : PHP (4.3 or newer) and MySQL (4.1.2 or newer) are required.
[] WordPress is designed to be installed on your own web server, or shared hosting account, which gives you complete control over the weblog. Unlike third-party hosted services, you can be sure of being able to access and modify everything related to your weblog, in case you need to.
[] NOTE: wordpress.com is a third-party hosted feature-limited version of the WordPress software.
[] WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically. You can control the presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Editor tool and the Template Tags
[] A template tag is code that instructs WordPress to “do” or “get” something. In the case of the header.php template tag for your WordPress site’s name, it looks like this:
<h1><? php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>
[] Our WordPress Business Hosting themes are highly customized to best serve the business user and their website visitors.
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