How to Make a WordPress Website on Cloudways

Make a WordPress Website on Cloudways: In the present time online business is gaining momentum, keeping this in mind everyone wants to make a website. But everyone falls into this thinking, how to make an attractive WordPress website. But In this article, we are going to tell you how to create a WordPress website in a very easy way. Because in this article we will tell you by making a website. Even if you are a beginner, you can still make the best website by reading this article completely. In this article, we will give you step-by-step information about how to make a website, So do not leave this article half-reading.  

Make a WordPress Website on Cloudways

So friends, let us tell you that to make a website, we need two things, one is the domain and one is WordPress Hosting. Let us tell you that we are going to make a website whose loading speed will be very fast. Due to the fast loading speed, the traffic on the website will also be highest and apart from this, the website will never be down, no matter how much traffic comes to the website. 

We are going to use Cloudways Hosting to create the website. This hosting is very super fast hosting. And this hosting makes the loading speed of your website very fast. No matter how much traffic comes to your site, the speed of the website will never go down. And their support is very strong, which we liked very much because if any question is asked from the Cloudways Hosting team then they answer it in seconds. Apart from this, they solve any type of problem in seconds. So that’s why we will use Cloudways Hosting. 

Buy a Domain 

First of all, we have to buy a domain. If you want, you can buy a domain by clicking on the GoDaddy website here.   

Create an Account with Cloudways 

After this, you have to click on the Cloudways link so that you can access Cloudways hosting website. After this, a page will open in front of you. On the page you will see a “start free button”, you have to click on it. Or, you can click on the “Start Free Now” button below. 

After clicking on the Start Free button, another new page will open in front of you and you will be asked to create an account. 

After this, you fill in your first name in the first name box and fill in your last name in the last name box. And fill in your email address in the email box and enter your password in the password box. Remember passwords should be a bit complicated. After this, in the box with ‘I would best describe myself as’, you have to select who you are or which business you have, if you are a blogger then select blogger.   

After this, you have to select an amount in ‘my monthly hosting spending is’. You can choose any amount based on your ability but initially choose $0-$50.

you have to tick “I agree to the Cloudways Terms of Service & Privacy Policy”. And after that, you have to click on the start free Button.

this process will be completed in a few seconds. Friends, we have now reached the page of Cloudways.

Verify Cloudways Account 

Now you will see that you are being asked to “verify your account”. So to verify the account, a message will have come to your Gmail account named Cloudways team, all you have to do is click on that message. And you have to click on an ‘Activate Account’ button inside the message.

Now our account will be verified. Let us tell you friends that this process of verifying the account is very important.  

Now another account verification page will open in front of you but on this page, you will only need to enter your phone number. And click on the ‘Send SMS’ Button.

After clicking Send SMS, a 6-digit code will come to your mobile phone. You have to enter this 6-digit code on the new page that will open on the computer screen. Let us tell you that you will have only 2 minutes to fill in this code.

After entering the code, now you have to click on the ‘Verify’ button.  

Application and Server Detail in Cloudways 

Choose Version

And after a few seconds, a new page will open in front of you in which you will see Application & Server details, Server size, etc. Let us tell you that on this page you have to fill in some details like application server details, server size, etc.

On this page, you have to first select the latest version of WordPress. As recently the latest version of WordPress is 6.0 then you select 6.0. Now after this you have to fill in the name of your blog in ‘Your application’. Apart from this, you also have to fill in the name of your blog in ‘Your Server’ and ‘Your Project’. 

Choose Server 

Now after this you have to select the server. What kind of server do you want to select Digital Ocean, VULTR, Linode, AWS, or any other? We recommend that you choose Digital Ocean. So So we choose Digital Ocean. 

Choose Your Server Size 

After selecting Server, we move towards Server Size. So let us tell you that we are in the beginning, so we take the smallest server size 1 GB. If, yes, you start earning well then you can increase your server plan. If you have selected any GB plan, and you want to see its price, then you can see it at the very bottom of the page. Now let’s move toward the location. 

Choose Your Server Location

You should choose the location correctly because it is responsible for the performance of your website. You have to select the server of the country whose audience you want to target. 

Now you have to click on the “Launch Now” button. 

As soon as you click on the “Launch Now” button, a link will appear in front of you in a few seconds. If you share this link with your friends then you can also earn profit. Well, if you don’t want to do this you can remove this and proceed. 

Server Process in Cloudways

Now you are seeing on the newly opened page that the process of adding a server is going on with time. That is, after 7 minutes the process of adding a server will be completed.

After the process of adding the server is done, now let’s move forward. 

Click on Account 

Now after this you do not have to do anything on this page but you will be seeing the option of an account name on your right-hand side, you have to click on it.

After this a small page will open, this page will be in the same place ie on your right-hand side. You will see the Account and logout options on that page but you have to click on Account again. 

Fill Payment Details

After this, on the new page that opens, you will see 7 options, which will include the credit card option. You have to click on Credit Card. That’s because we have to fill in the payment details further. 

After clicking on the credit card, a new page will open in front of you, in which it will be written Credit card, Manage your credit card information. Let us tell you here that even though a credit card is written here but you can also use a debit card instead of a credit card. 

Along with this, you will also see the “Authorize Credit Card” button. You have to click on the “Authorize Credit Card” button.

As soon as you click on the “Authorize Credit Card” button a page like a form will open in front of you. You will have to fill in the complete billing information in it.

After filling out the complete form, you have to click on the “AUTHORIZE” button. 

Go to Servers Option

After this, a page will open in front of you in which you will see “Servers” written on your left side and on the top of the page. You have to click on it.

After clicking on the servers, a new page will open in front of you in which the SERVERS, the name of your blog, and the creation date will be written. 

So you have to click on the servers box itself because now we are going to connect this hosting to the domain.

Connect Domain To Hosting Account

After clicking on the server box, a new page will open in front of you, in which you will see the public IP and username if you look carefully. But all you have to do is click on the public IP and copy it. 

After copying the public IP, now we have to go to our domain account.

Go to the Domain Account

We bought the domain from GoDaddy, so we go to the GoDaddy account. After reaching the GoDaddy account, you have to click on “Saw” at your right-hand side and the top of the page.

After this, a small page will open in which you have to click on “My Products”. After clicking on “My Products”, a page will open in front of you but you have to scroll down the page. 

After coming down, you will see your domain. You will see the DNS option in front of the domain, you have to click on it. 

Add DNS Record

After clicking on the DNS option, now you have to add your DNS record. On the new page that opens to add DNS Records, you will see the “Add” button in the black box on your right-hand side. You have to click on the same black box button.

After this, a new page will open in which DNS records will be written and below that you will see to fill the boxes with type, name, value, and TTL. 

So in ‘Type’, you can select “A”, in ‘Name’, you can select @, in ‘Value’ select “IP Address” and in ‘TTL’ select “Default or Custom”. But the point to note here is that you have to fill in the IP address in the value carefully. 

After this, you will see the “Add Record” button in a black box below, you have to click on it.

After this, our DNS record will now be added. And now you can see that our DNS record has been added.

Now we don’t have to close the page with this DNS record because we will need this page later.  

Go Back to your Hosting

Now let’s go back to our hosting. And click on the ‘application’ on the left-hand side and top of the page. 

After this a page will open in front of you, You have to click on the big box that appears on this page in which the name of your site is written.

After this, a page of Access Detail will open in front of you. If you look carefully in the Access detail, you will also see an application URL written. If you want to see how your site is looking, click on the application URL.

So in this way, you will be seeing how your site is looking. You can see that we haven’t installed anything yet and the GoDaddy domain is not fully connected yet.

Because of this, you may notice that the site is currently unusable. So now we go back to the page with Access details. 

Domain Management Process 

After coming back to the page, you have to click on ‘Domain Management’ on the right side.

After clicking on Domain Management, a page with Domain Management will open in front of you. 

You have to fill in the primary domain on this page, then in the primary domain, you fill your domain, you can also paste your domain if you want. And click on ‘Save Changes’.

After this, the process will take about 1-2 minutes to complete. So now our primary domain has been updated. Now we have to go to the page with access details by clicking on ‘access details’ again.  

After going back to the page, we will now open our site again And see how our site is looking.   

So after reaching the access details page, we will see the application URL in the access details, we have to click on the ‘Application URL’ itself. 

After clicking on the Application URL, you can see how our site is looking after opening. If you look at the top left, you will see that Not Secure is written.

Not Secure means here that we have not installed the SSL certificate yet.

SSL certificate is such a certificate, by installing which the security of your site increases, and your site is not easily hacked by any hackers. So you can understand how important the SSL certificate is for our website.   

Install SSL Certificate 

So now we are going to install this SSL certificate. To install an SSL certificate, we will have to go to the same page on which the Access Details option is present. After reaching the Access Detail page, we will see the SSL Certificate option under the Access Detail option on the left-hand side. We have to click on the ‘SSL certificate’ only.  

It is very easy, if you look carefully, you will definitely see the SSL certificate option.  After clicking on SSL Certificate, a page with SSL Management will open in front of you.

You will have to fill in your email address and domain name on the SSL management page. 

So in the email address, you fill your email address. And in the Domain name, you fill your domain name. And after that click on ‘Install Certificate’. Now after some time, this SSL certificate will be installed. And after the SSL certificate is installed, we will open our site again and see how our site is looking.

Now you can see that now the SSL certificate has been installed But now we have to go to the page with Access Details again. 

We go to the Access Details again

Now we go to Access Details again and click on ‘Access Details’ on the left-hand side.

After reaching the access details page we will open our site again to see how our site is looking so we have to click on the ‘application URL’. After clicking on the Application URL, you can now see how our site looks after opening. Now our site is not showing any error. And on the top of the page, you can see that our domain is showing well with HTTPS.

Login to Website Dashboard

Now let’s go back to the page with Access details. Because now we will tell you by logging in to the dashboard of our website. On reaching the page with access details, you will see ADMIN PANEL written on the access details page. Below the ADMIN PANEL, you will see the URL, username, etc. written. You have to click on the ADMIN PANEL URL. 

After this, after clicking on the URL, a new page will open in front of you in which two boxes will appear in which you will have to fill in your username and password.

So let us tell you that you go to the page with access details again and copy the username from there and paste the username in the box containing the username on the page that opens separately. And likewise, copy the password from the page containing the access details and paste the password in the box containing the password on the page that opens separately. And now after this, you have to click on login. 

So now you can see that we have been logged into our website. And now you can see how your website dashboard is appearing. 

So our website is ready but the main work is yet to be done, let’s get that done too.

Add CDN to Your Website

Now we are going to add CDN to our website that too in a very easy way. CDN is being used by the whole world, That’s why we also will use CDN.  Using a CDN increases the speed of the website and also increases the security of the website. So let’s move on to the process of adding a CDN.  

So for that, we have to go to Cloudflare Account. For this, we have to search Cloudflare on Google. After this, you have to click on www.Cloudfare.com on the new page that opens. 

And after that, you will reach inside the Cloudfare site and after reaching inside you will see a Sign-up button at the top right-hand side. All you have to do is click on ‘Sign Up’. 

After this, a page will open in front of you in which it will be written Get Started With Cloudfare, and below it, there will be two empty boxes in which you will have to fill in the email and password. 

After filling in the email and password in this way, you have to click on the ‘Create Account’ button given below. 

After clicking on the Create Account button, you will now be logged into Cloudfare in a few seconds. Now on the new page opened in front of you, you will see Home written, and under Home, you will see an empty box to search.    

But you will be asked to add the site. So you have to click on the ‘Add Site’ Button given below.

After this, a new page will open in front of you, in which you will have to paste the name of your site(Domain name) and click on ‘Add Site’. 

Select Plan

And after that, you will be reached on the page with Select Plan. You have to scroll down the page with the select plan and select any one plan.  

If you are a beginner then, in the beginning, you can click on the free one i.e. the $0 one below. And after that, you have to click on the ‘Continue’ Button.

After some process, a new page will open on your computer screen saying Review your DNS Records.

But you have to scroll down the page and at the bottom, you will see the ‘Continue’ button, and you have to click on that ‘Continue’ button itself.

Change Your NameServers

After clicking on the ‘Continue’ Button, you will now have a new page in front of you, on which it will be written that Change your nameservers.  

But you have to scroll down the page a bit and at the bottom, you will see the third number written Add Cloudflare’s nameservers. And two boxes will appear below Add Cloudflare’s nameservers. Cloudflare’s nameservers are given in those two boxes. 

So now let’s go to the same DNS page of GoDaddy. The same DNS page to which we added the DNS record. 

After accessing GoDaddy’s DNS records page, we need to scroll down this DNS records page a bit. On scrolling down we will see Nameservers written. In Nameservers, you will see two nameservers written. But here we will add the nameservers of Cloudflare. Because Cloudflare’s nameservers work very well. So you will be seeing the ‘Change’ button with a black box near the nameservers, you have to click on that ‘Change’ button.

After clicking on the ‘Change’ button, the Edit nameservers page will open in front of you. And if you look at the very bottom of the page, you will see Enter my own nameservers (advanced) written, then you have to click on ‘Enter my own nameservers (advanced)’. 

Enter Name Server

After clicking on ‘Enter my own nameservers (advanced)’, a page with Enter my own nameservers will open in front of you, in which you will see two empty boxes. In those two empty boxes, you have to fill in the Nameservers.

So now we go back to the Cloudflare account to copy the nameservers. After copying the first server from the Cloudflare account, go to the GoDaddy page and paste the first server in the nameserver 1 box there.

Now go to the Cloudflare account again and copy another server from there. And then paste the second server in the Nameserver 2 box on the GoDaddy page. Keep in mind that you have to paste the servers in sequence. Now after this click on the ‘save’ button with the black box given below.

After clicking on the save button, a page with the nameserver update will open in front of you. You will see a small box at the bottom of this page that will say Yes, I consent to update Nameservers for the selected domain(s). You have to tick that box. And after ticking, click on the Continue button below. 

Now you will see that the nameserver update process is going on. Now our nameservers are updated. 

Now let’s go to the Cloudflare account, on reaching there, we will see a boxed button ‘Done, Check nameservers’ at the bottom of the page. You have to click on the same button.

Quick Start Guide

Now after this a page with Quick Start Guide will open in front of you. At the very bottom of the Quick Start Guide page, you’ll see a ‘Get started’ boxed button. You have to click on the same button. 

Always Use HTTPS

After clicking on the ‘Get Started’ button, you will have to turn on “Always Use HTTPS”, for this you will be seeing the button with the lever near the “Always Use HTTPS”, you have to move it. And in this way Always Use HTTPS will be turned on and you have to click on the ‘save’ button.

Auto Minify

After this, the option with “Optimize Performance” will open. So in “Optimize performance”, you will see Auto Minify written. Let us tell you that Auto Minify minimizes files by removing unnecessary characters from Java Script, HTTPS, and CSS files, which increases the speed of the website. So if you want to adopt this option, then you can tick on all three Java Script, CSS, and HTML on your right-hand side. And after that, you can click on the ‘Save’ button below.

But we have not done this because in this place we will be using a cache plugin and we have only clicked on the ‘save’ button.

Brotli

After this, a “Brotli” option will open in front of you, but you have to click on the ‘Save’ button again. 

After clicking on the Save button, a final option “Summary” will open in which you can read what you have done and click on the ‘Finish’ button that appears at the end of the page.

And now our site is ready. However, the system for adding themes and plugins is yet to come, which you will learn about in our next article. 

Now if you want to see the DNS record of your website again, then you can click on the DNS option on the Cloudflare page. And you can check if our DNS record is connected correctly although you will see that our DNS record is connected correctly. 

Now we go to our Gmail account, and for this, we search Gmail on Google. After this, our Gmail account will open. In the Gmail account, you will see that a message called Cloudflare has come, you have to click on the same message. After this, you will see inside the message that Congratulations, You have successfully activated Domain.com.   

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