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We confirmed that our web host can support our preferred CMS. We first went to CMS Matrix to find out the system requirements of a few CMSs. The best part of CMS Matrix is that it shows a side-by-side feature comparison of your shortlisted CMSs. This makes it very easy for us to determine which CMS will fit our needs.

We then looked at the specific requirements of WordPress. Checking out detailed technical requirements helps us understand them better and confirm them with our host.

Equipped with this information, we went to our host's site to check if our host supports those requirements. Thankfully, it does support PHP and MySQL. As a matter of fact, it has WordPress among its included plug-ins. This means, it should be really easy to set up WordPress on this host. We also saw that the host can support any PHP/MySQL or Perl-based system.

If you can't understand whether your host supports your preferred CMS or not, you should contact them and find out. If they have specific restrictions on what features are available, you should find a CMS that can work with that restriction. If that fails, change your host!

We have now confirmed that our host supports WordPress, so let's go ahead and install WordPress! Let's see if it's really as easy as it claims to be.