What is Cloudways hosting and how to install WordPress on it?

Cloudways hosting is considered one of the modern cloud hosting platforms that is suitable for owners and developers of WordPress sites, other content management systems, and all other PHP applications due to its distinguished performance, high degree of security, fast technical support, and ease of use compared to other cloud hosting companies .

It provides its own control panel. This panel is easy to use, and enables you to choose from several basic cloud systems or services to host your project on, such as Amazon, Digital Ocean, and others… given that setting up hosting on these cloud services is somewhat difficult and complicated.

In this article, we will explain to you what Cloudways hosting is, show you its most important advantages and disadvantages, and explain the method of creating a free trial account on this platform, the method of installing WordPress on it and linking the domain name to the site with detailed illustrated steps.

What is Cloudways?

Cloudways is a relatively new hosting platform that provides managed cloud web hosting servers   for your website at a reasonable cost and high capabilities .

The term managed hosting means that the hosting company takes over the management of the server allocated to you.

Cloudways does not operate as a traditional cloud hosting provider. Rather, it provides a service that sets up and manages servers from famous VPS companies such as Amazon , Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean servers , which are difficult to use if the user does not have a good technical background.

Cloudways provides users with managed hosting servers provided by these companies as an infrastructure for your site, and gives you an easy-to-use interface that you can manage very easily as you manage any shared web hosting (shared hosting) for a small additional cost.

It is worth noting that hosting costs at Cloudways vary depending on the cloud server provider you chose for your site and the resources of this server. For example, when you choose Amazon servers or Google servers, you will pay costs from the rest of the hosting providers.

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Cloudwise Cloud Hosting Plans

Cloudways takes advantage of the resources provided by many servers clustered together to load balance your website, a feature not available in traditional hosting plans.

The company also offers several paid cloud hosting packages that only charge for the time you use. For example, if you cancel a plan 10 days a month, you will only be charged for the value of the hosting days you used.

Web hosting plans start at $12 per month and offer (25GB of storage, 1TB of bandwidth for monthly data transfers, 1GB of RAM, and a 1core processor)

 It costs up to $96 per month and provides (160 GB of storage, 5 TB of monthly data transfer package, 192 GB of RAM, and a 5-core processor)

You can find out more about hosting features and prices from the following link and choose the plan that suits you from among them.

Pros of Cloudways Cloudways

  • Provides outstanding customer service 24/7 via phone or web chat.
  • Provides high security for your site as your system is installed to protect you from attacks by issuing regular upgrades to the operating system and installed software.
  • Provides free SSL certificates to protect sensitive data on your site.
  • Allows monitoring of applications hosted on each server separately. It provides analytics monitoring and shows you traffic information, PHP requests, MySQL requests, and disk usage.
  • It allows you to monitor logs and shows you your website access history and error history.
  • The Cloudways application library contains many e-commerce tools, such as the Magento platform, which allows you to create an online store in just a few minutes by dragging and dropping the item you want in your web store.

Cons of Cloudwise: 

  • Cloudwise’s basic hosting plans do not provide email service. To provide personalized email, you must sign up with RackSpace and pay $1 per month for each email account, which is expensive.
  • Cloudwise Hosting does not provide a domain name registration service as is the case with most hosting companies, and therefore you must secure a domain name for your site from an external source such as Namecheap or others.
  • After purchasing the domain, the process of setting up and linking the domain you purchased from a third party to hosting is a little confusing for beginners.
  • Their prices are relatively high compared to other cloud hosting services.

Why is Cloudwise Hosting suitable for WordPress?

The most prominent feature of Cloudways is that it provides managed cloud hosting services for WordPress websites, and this hosting has the following features:

  • Cloudwise allows you to install WordPress with one click and have your site up and running in minutes.
  • It ensures that your site does not crash at all, as several copies of the site are duplicated on different servers. So if your main server goes down, Cloudies will ensure that your site runs on a different server directly and instantly (the duplicate will become a new site on a different server) and will ensure that your site is always available to your visitors and customers.
  • Cloudies offers a great feature through which you can host multiple WordPress websites on one server with great ease, as you can add unlimited websites on one server without conditions, as you will pay the hosting costs for each server and not for each website.
  • Cloudies Hosting provides a self-updating feature for the WordPress system, performs a daily backup of your site automatically, and also monitors the site in real time and verifies its security on an ongoing basis.
  • Sites are provided with   the Breeze plugin that optimizes your WordPress site, reduces page load time and provides a better user experience.
  • The Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin   , which automates the process of migrating WordPress from any other hosting provider to the Cloudways platform very easily. All you have to do is provide the Cloudways SFTP details to the plugin and it will carry out the migration process easily and ensure that your site does not stop working.   
  • Cloudways offers one-click replication so you can quickly create duplicate copies of your applications and servers. And other great features that make it ideal for installing WordPress sites on it.

How do I install WordPress on Cloudways?

Cloudways cloud hosting is easy to use with WordPress and allows you to install WordPress with one click. It also allows you to create as many applications (sites) as you want on the same cloud server or on multiple servers.

Remember that Cloudways does not host your sites directly on its servers, but rather hosts them on the servers of other companies that it relies on as hosting infrastructure, in exchange for facilitating the hosting management process and providing technical support and other facilities.

In order to install WordPress on Cloudwise, you need three basic steps:

Step1. Create an account on the Cloudways platform

Go to the main page of the platform and register for the trial account by clicking on the Start 3 Days Free  or Start Free button at the top. The hosting will provide you with a free trial account for three days.

 Create your own username and password, and fill out the rest of the required information about the nature of your site and your budget, or register through your account on Google, Github, or LinkedIn.

The site will ask you to confirm your identity to ensure that you are not a malicious robot, and will ask you to contact an email address for activation.

You will then be asked to send an email that includes a photo of your ID card, passport, or driver’s license. And provide it with two of the following:

  • Your Facebook URL
  • Your Twitter account
  • A link to your LinkedIn profile
  • The address of your company or personal website
  • Your contact phone number

After verifying that your data is correct, Cloudwise will send you an activation email. You can click on the Activate Account button from within the email sent to activate your trial account, which will last for three days during which you can test the hosting performance and then decide whether you want to upgrade to the paid service or end dealing with the platform.

 Then log in to your account using the email and password you specified during registration.

After you have successfully completed this step and created your free trial account in Cloudways, it is time to move to the next step and create your own WordPress website.

Step2. Install WordPress on Cloudwise

Once you activate your free account on Cloudways and successfully log in to your account, you must follow these steps:

Choose the hosting server that you want to use to install your site or application, and also choose the server size and server location so that it is as close as possible to the geographical location of your visitors, then click the LAUNCH NOW button .

Digital Ocean Server on Cloudways

As shown in the previous image, Cloudwise provides you with five main cloud companies that you can rely on as your website infrastructure:

  1. DigitalOcean
  2. Linode
  3. VULTURE
  4.  Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  5. Google Cloud Platform.

Here we chose DigitalOcean servers as the infrastructure for the cloud network and we chose the server size to be 2 GB.

There is no need to create your own account on DigitalOcean or install WordPress. Simply specify your options and Cloudwise will manage things and install everything for you. 

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In general, you should choose the server location that is closest to the geographical area where your visitors come from. But if your site is dedicated to a local business, it is best in this case to choose the server location closest to your local business.

The site will offer you to invite your friends to the Cloudwise platform and receive a commission of $25 in your account if they subscribe. You can copy the link to use it later and follow the rest of the steps.

Then the creation of the virtual server will begin. It will take several minutes to add your cloud server and install WordPress on it.

After completion, the server you created will appear as follows and its information as follows

You will be shown the name of the server you created, information about it, the server IP, its size, and its location. You can access this window by logging into the Cloudways hosting control panel, and selecting the Servers menu item at the top of the control panel.

 You will also see www followed by the number 1 in orange, which represents applications created on the server, which means that the server has been created and your WordPress application has been created on this server (the number will increase whenever you create a new application on the server).

A folder icon will also appear with the number 1 next to it in purple, which represents the projects created on the server. It is used for the purpose of organizing applications and websites on the virtual server.

Click the orange number next to www, and click the Your Application link as shown in the following image to access the URL of your WordPress site and log in to the site.

The Application Management window will now appear to you, which is an important window that contains many tabs necessary for managing your site. The ACCESS DETAILS tab displays all the login details for the site.

Click on the site address (APPLICATION URL) to display your WordPress site with the default template Twenty Twenty-Tw o. Of course, you need to replace this link with an actual domain later.

To access the site’s control panel, click on the (ADMIN PANEL) link in the application management window. Log in to your site’s control panel as follows

Now your WordPress site control panel will appear to you, and from here you can customize your site as you wish, whether installing a template suitable for your site, activating the necessary add-ons, publishing content from articles or pages , or adding products if your site is an online store .

As you can see, it’s very easy! With just a few clicks, your WordPress website was created on DigitalOcean cloud hosting using the Cloudways control panel.

Step3. Additional settings for your WordPress website

You then need to make some additional important settings for your site to be complete. We will explain to you the most important of these settings:

Link your domain name to the site.

Unfortunately, you cannot buy a domain directly from Cloudways because they do not offer a domain registration service. Therefore, if you have not purchased a domain name for your site, you must obtain a domain name from one of the external companies that provide this service, such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, or from another registrar.

Then you must copy the IP of the site located under the server name or in the Access Information tab in the Application Management window, and go to the third-party domain registrar and associate the domain name with this IP.

Now you need to go back to the site where you registered the domain (such as GoDaddy) and add the A record to the IP address you copied.

The steps here will vary depending on the company you purchased the domain name from, but Cloudways provides you with a detailed guide on how to do these steps in detail for GoDaddy, Namecheap, and Dreamhost.

Then you have to add your domain name to your WordPress site on Cloudwise by returning again to the application management window, choosing the DOMAIN MANAGEMENT tab , adding your domain name in the PRIMARY DOMAIN field , then clicking the Add Domain button.

After adding your domain name, click the  Save changes button to save the changes.

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After adding your A record, you must wait for the DNS changes to propagate. This may take about a day or two, and once the changes are activated and published, you will have successfully added the domain name to your new WordPress installation and moved to your site through the domain you registered.

Add a free SSL certificate to your WordPress site

Cloudways offers you a free option to add an SSL certificate to your site using Let’s Encrypt. You can also add your own Custom SSL certificate if you have one.

To install the free SSL certificate, go to the application control panel again, choose the SSL Certificate tab , fill in the required information, and press the Install Certificate button to start the certificate installer. Installing the certificate may take some time.

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Make sure you have added your domain name to Cloudways before installing the SSL certificate or you will not be able to complete this step.

Conclusion:

In this article, we learned about Cloudways hosting, which is considered a high-performance cloud hosting for hosting managed WordPress sites. It provides tremendous capabilities that are suitable for large websites and large electronic stores that receive a large number of visitors every month.

We have explained how to create a free account and install WordPress on the DigitalOcean cloud using the Cloudways control panel, how to link the domain to your site, and install a free SSL certificate on it.

We advise you to try the free offer provided by the Cloudways platform, test your site or store on it, and share your experience in the comments. Do you prefer to use CloudWaze for cloud hosting, or do you prefer to rely on other hosting? Tell us your opinion in the comments below the article

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