WordPress Strartup is complicated by the fact that a)hosting services are moving from datacenter to Cloud services and b)therefore their costs are very much in the air. So many vendors offer 1,2 or,3 year low price deals that jump to substantially higher fulltime costs. In addition what services and costs are are currently on offer hanges by quater. So be sure to look for the WPBeginner Report or check out their Guide.  WordPress.org – offers free code + choice of theme [now 5000], and100s of plugis[now over 55,000]. But users are responsible for the website  domain name, hosting service, and all installation steps. This takes about 10-15 minutes to get a basics website with one post and page operating. Next see here a free video guide for setting-up a WordPress.org website with many pages, posts and features. Now there are dozens of hosting companies  cna be seen . here l. Hosting with 1 year domain name performance, and he WordPress.com – offers immediately usable website with a partly assigned domain name – YourChoiceName.wordpress.com, 1GB of disk space, fast Cloud based performance including bare bones security protection. The free system also has WordPress ads in the header or sidebar. Starting at $60CAD/year users get to choose their domain,name, now have 6GB of space to run their posts and pages and no WordPress ads. The startup help gets users creating posts, pages with images and menu links in 1-3 hours But the pricing is complex ranging from $120/year to $25,000US/year. WordPress.com is expensive  in contrast to most features at WordPress.org are low cost if not free.