Hey there! Welcome to Cloudways your go-to platform for hassle-free hosting solutions. We’re all about making web hosting easier so you can grow your business faster. I’m Shahzeb Ahmed, Community Manager at Cloudways and in this video series I’ll be walking you through some of the common workflows. You need to manage a website with Cloudways. Today I’m going to be showing you how to install a WordPress website on Cloudways Is it super easy and I show you how to do it step by step. Before that let’s talk really quickly about what Cloudways is. What is Cloudways Cloudways is a managed hosting platform. So what does that mean? It means that Cloudways will take care of a lot of your typical hosting challenges for you. We make sure your server performs great, your pages load fast, and your website is secure. So if you use Cloudways for your hosting you can expect super fast page loads, 24/7 support, and easy add-ons like Cloudflare and SafeUpdates that make your site even faster and more secure. Another way we make hosting easy is with our platform’s simple user interface. On our dashboard, you can easily see all your servers and applications in one place and with the platform side navigation you can directly access all of the great features Cloudways has to offer. So let’s get into it. Let me show you Signup on Cloudways how to quickly install a WordPress website on Cloudways. To get started, all you need is an account with Cloudways. If you haven’t created one yet, don’t worry. Just head over to claudwoys.com and sign up in a few simple steps. Once you are logged in WordPress hosting made easy with Cloudways click on the ‘Add server’ button on the top right corner. This will get you started While you have multiple options for content management systems on Cloudways, today we will focus on WordPress. WordPress is the most popular content management system since it allows users to create and manage websites easily with no code. There are three different versions of WordPress that you can choose from WordPress 6.11 with Cloudways optimization, Wordpress Multisite, and Clean WordPress with no optimization. So you can choose the best option for your website. WordPress 6.11 comes with Cloudways Optimization using the Breeze Plugin that helps improve the performance of your website This is an excellent choice for most individuals and small businesses. On the other hand, WordPress multisite is a great option for developers and agencies as it allows users to create a network of WordPress websites with a single installation for clean WordPress without any optimization. You can also opt for Clean WordPress without any optimization. So for this tutorial, I’ll just select WordPress 6.11. Second, you need to name your application and your server and you can keep the default project name. Next, we need to choose a cloud provider for our server. There are multiple options to choose from DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Engine. DigitalOcean is known for its high performance and competitive pricing. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, offers a wide array of services and global coverage but it could be a bit overwhelming for beginners. Google Cloud Engine or GCE also offers global coverage and robust services but its pricing could be less predictable. For our purpose today, we’ll be using DigitalOcean. Now, let’s talk about choosing the right RAM size. RAM directly impacts your site’s performance. The more RAM you have, the more data your server can handle at once. For most beginners or small-scale websites, 1GB or 2GB should be sufficient. But as your site grows, you might need to consider increasing it. This is easy to do with Cloudways since you can scale your server with just one click when you need to. We have little disk icons here showing Premium Droplet Servers from Digital Ocean with Premium Droplets. You can now host your application on high-performing, entry-level servers based on Intel’s latest Xeon infrastructure without paying a premium amount. If you opt for a standard server when you start, you can always scale up to premium whenever you want to. You just move up the slider here there is not much difference in price for the standard and premium versions for the smallest 1GB server you’re paying just $2 over the Basic Droplet for the new, faster tech. Cloudways also has metered billing so you can easily see the price difference here Cloudways uses a pay-as-you-go model which means you only pay for the resources you consume. If you use a server for an hour you will only be charged for an hour. So you can spin up the servers, delete them and duplicate them however and whenever you want. Lastly, let’s choose the best data center for your needs. Data centers are physical locations where your server is housed selecting a data center closer to your target audience can significantly improve your website speed and reduce latency. For example, if your visitors will mostly be from the UK, it would be best to choose London as your data center. Once you are satisfied with all your selections, it’s time to click launch now! Sit back and relax as Cloudways manages the rest for you. In just a few minutes, your WordPress site will be up and running on your DigitalOcean server. So that’s it! Your WordPress application is now installed on Cloudways. You can access your newly installed WordPress application by clicking on this staging URL. If you see the page on the screen, it means everything has been configured successfully. To log in to your WordPress website, simply go to application management access details admin panel There you will find the admin username and password for your WordPress application. Click the URL then copy and paste the credentials to access the WordPress admin panel. I hope this video has been helpful in getting you started with Cloudways and understanding the basics of launching a WordPress site on DigitalOcean. In the next video I’ll show more workflows that will make running your websites a breeze and managing your servers a piece of cake. If you have any questions, feel free to comment down below and subscribe to the channel to get more helpful Cloudways tutorials. Thanks for watching! Happy hosting! See you in the next video!