How to deploy a WordPress site on ByteNests
Install WordPress in a hosting account with its own database and free SSL, then set it up properly before launch.
WordPress runs a large share of the web, and it is the most popular one-click app on ByteNests hosting. Here is the whole path from an empty hosting account to a secure, backed-up site.
Before you start
A hosting account. If you do not have one, open Hosting → Create and pick a plan. See Create a hosting account.
A domain. Use one registered with ByteNests, one you own elsewhere, or a subdomain of a site you already have. To register a new one first, see Register a domain, then build a WordPress site on it.
Install WordPress
Open the hosting account and choose Create website.
Choose the domain.
Pick WordPress.
Enter the site title, and the admin username, email address and password you will log in with. Avoid admin as the username.
Leave Free SSL certificate on. The installer picks a suitable PHP version.
Choose Create website and keep the page open. Setup usually takes a few minutes, and the login details are shown when it finishes.
WordPress gets its own files, its own MySQL database and its own certificate. You do not need to create a database for it.
Point the domain
A domain registered with ByteNests is set up for you. For a domain registered elsewhere, open the hosting account’s DNS tab: it lists the records the site needs (Should be) next to what public DNS returns now (Found). Usually that is an A record for the domain and one for www. Set them at your domain provider and choose Check again.
Turn on HTTPS
Once DNS points at the server, open the SSL tab, choose Issue free certificate if one is not there yet, and turn on Force HTTPS. Certificates come from Let’s Encrypt and renew themselves.
Log in and set up
Choose Manage next to the site and open the WordPress admin, or go to https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin. Then:
Pick a theme and set the permalink style under Settings → Permalinks.
Install only the plugins you need, and keep them updated.
For a store, install WooCommerce.
Create a mailbox such as hello@yourdomain.com on the Email tab, and use it as the site’s contact address.
Keep it safe
Before any plugin, theme or WordPress update, take a backup from the Backups tab, with a label such as before-update. It includes the site files, the database and mail, and each can be restored on its own. Then watch the Traffic tab’s missing pages list for broken links after changes.