Website · Blog
WordPress
Runs a large share of the web; host it anywhere.
open source self-hostable WordPress project · USThe open-source CMS with the biggest ecosystem; self-host on any European provider or use Automattic's US cloud.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Website” with itPlan “Blog” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
| Hosted outside Europe | servers outside Europe | ≈ €4/mo per site | red — Hosted outside Europe: your data sits under non-European jurisdiction. |
Facts
| Company / project | WordPress project (US) |
|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 512 MB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 5 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Wix, Squarespace |
| Alternatives to it here | Ghost |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
Machine-readable: /api/tools/wordpress.json. Something wrong? Tell us.