Manage Hosting
Once you have connected hosting to your InstaWP account, you can create new sites with a custom domain name. It also assists you in managing your newly created site by carrying out various actions such as mapping the domain, deleting the site, and migrating it into your hosting account.
In this documentation, we will explore:
Create New Site
Manage connected hosting
Let’s get started 🚀
Step 1: Navigate to your hosting page.
Step 2: Select the connected hosting provider from the left dropdown of the interface and click on the Apply button.
For example, we have used the InstaWP live (Live Partner) for hosting.
Step 3: Click on the +New Site button from the top right corner of the interface._
A new dialog will appear, providing you with the following options for connecting to a hosting provider:
Host with InstaWP
Choose an external service
InstaWP allows you to migrate your WordPress site to the InstaWP Live - managed WordPress Hosting with CDN, Security (WAF), and Backups in-built.
Select InstaWP Live and click on the Next Step button.
The pricing plan window will appear. Select a pricing plan according to your preferences and follow the steps outlined Create InstaWP Live hosted Site section beginning from Step 4.
This allows migrating your staging sites directly into hosting panels by the supported providers such are Runcloud, and Server Avatar integration. For more information, refer to the Runcloud & Server Avatar integration docs.
Once connected, manage your newly created live hosted site by configuring the options from the following settings:
Connect Settings
Hosting Settings
You can choose the Purge cache option to free up server resources, making your connected site function faster and more efficiently, particularly in terms of a site's Time to First Byte (TTFB), by serving pages and static cache directly from the closest server available to visitors.
You can configure the following options that are available on the hosting settings (e.g. InstaWP Live hosted site):
Dashboard
SFTP SSH
Backup
Map Domain
Delete
You can view your InstaWP Live - hosted website’s space & cores used with basic information such as PHP, WordPress version, or database size.
Note: The user can also change their PHP and WordPress version on their InstaWP Live Hosted Site.
You can also use the Edge Caching feature that saves your page cache (which is only stored in your site's server center) to any of the operated data centers worldwide such as: Dallas, San Jose, Ashburn, Seattle, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, New York (US), Toronto (CA) Singapore, Sao Paolo, (BR), London (UK), Vienna, Sydney (AU), Hong Kong (CHN), Stockholm (SE) Madrid (ESP), Paris (FR), Frankfurt (GER) Johannesburg (SA), Osaka (JP) & Mumbai (IN).
Note: When visitors load your website in their browser, cached replies are provided from the closest location to them.
InstaWP allows you to create a new SFTP/SSH user and utilize the following two connection types to establish a single sign-on for your live website without any login credentials of that user.
SSH Key Pair
Password
To use an SSH Key pair as a connection type, paste the SSH Public key that you generated on selecting the repository type as private to add a new deployment. For more information, refer to the Add Deployment document.
To use a password as a connection type for adding an SSH/SFTP user, enter the password.
After choosing a connection type for adding an SSH/SFTP user, click on the Add User button.
This will add a new SSH/SFTP user which allows you to access the website without any login credentials of the added user.
Now that your public key has been connected to the InstaWP live site, you may copy the SSH command and paste it into your terminal to get a password-less login.
Hit enter and then type yes to execute.
You can download the backup file for your hosted live site since InstaWP automatically creates a backup every day and stores a separate shadow copy of the site, updated in sync, in another region.
Note: If a primary datacenter pool encounters an issue, it immediately fails over to the site's secondary datacenter pool, keeping the site operational and backup safe.
Note: The user can manually backup their files and databases, which will only be created once. To manually generate a backup again, users must first delete the previous one.
You can map your website with a new domain name by linking it to a web-hosting server, such as Cloudflare or Namecheap.
Step 1: Enter a domain name.
Step 2: Copy the domain name that you have entered and both the "A" records IP addreses, as will be needed to paste on DNS records for mapping.
Step 3: Go to your domain register panel (such as Cloudflare or Namecheap) to add a new record.
Step 4: Paste the domain name and IP address to the relevant fields, then click on the Save button.
Note: The user can only paste one IP address for every DNS record. For second IP address, they need to add new record and paste the same domain name with it
Step 5: Click on the Map domain button to complete mapping. For more information, refer to the Map Domain document.
This will complete your domain name mapping. You can refresh the page to see.
You can also delete your InstaWP live hosted site when not in use anymore.
💡 Did you know - You can offer templates combined with a hosting service to other users by creating a Waas. Learn more about WaaS.
In this documentation, we will explore:
Create New Site
Manage connected hosting
Let’s get started 🚀
Create New Site
Step 1: Navigate to your hosting page.
Step 2: Select the connected hosting provider from the left dropdown of the interface and click on the Apply button.
For example, we have used the InstaWP live (Live Partner) for hosting.
Step 3: Click on the +New Site button from the top right corner of the interface._
A new dialog will appear, providing you with the following options for connecting to a hosting provider:
Host with InstaWP
Choose an external service
Host with InstaWP
InstaWP allows you to migrate your WordPress site to the InstaWP Live - managed WordPress Hosting with CDN, Security (WAF), and Backups in-built.
Select InstaWP Live and click on the Next Step button.
The pricing plan window will appear. Select a pricing plan according to your preferences and follow the steps outlined Create InstaWP Live hosted Site section beginning from Step 4.
Choose an external service
This allows migrating your staging sites directly into hosting panels by the supported providers such are Runcloud, and Server Avatar integration. For more information, refer to the Runcloud & Server Avatar integration docs.
Manage connected hosting
Once connected, manage your newly created live hosted site by configuring the options from the following settings:
Connect Settings
Hosting Settings
Connect Settings
You can choose the Purge cache option to free up server resources, making your connected site function faster and more efficiently, particularly in terms of a site's Time to First Byte (TTFB), by serving pages and static cache directly from the closest server available to visitors.
Hosting Settings
You can configure the following options that are available on the hosting settings (e.g. InstaWP Live hosted site):
Dashboard
SFTP SSH
Backup
Map Domain
Delete
Dashboard
You can view your InstaWP Live - hosted website’s space & cores used with basic information such as PHP, WordPress version, or database size.
Note: The user can also change their PHP and WordPress version on their InstaWP Live Hosted Site.
You can also use the Edge Caching feature that saves your page cache (which is only stored in your site's server center) to any of the operated data centers worldwide such as: Dallas, San Jose, Ashburn, Seattle, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, New York (US), Toronto (CA) Singapore, Sao Paolo, (BR), London (UK), Vienna, Sydney (AU), Hong Kong (CHN), Stockholm (SE) Madrid (ESP), Paris (FR), Frankfurt (GER) Johannesburg (SA), Osaka (JP) & Mumbai (IN).
Note: When visitors load your website in their browser, cached replies are provided from the closest location to them.
SFTP SSH
InstaWP allows you to create a new SFTP/SSH user and utilize the following two connection types to establish a single sign-on for your live website without any login credentials of that user.
SSH Key Pair
Password
SSH Key Pair
To use an SSH Key pair as a connection type, paste the SSH Public key that you generated on selecting the repository type as private to add a new deployment. For more information, refer to the Add Deployment document.
Password
To use a password as a connection type for adding an SSH/SFTP user, enter the password.
After choosing a connection type for adding an SSH/SFTP user, click on the Add User button.
This will add a new SSH/SFTP user which allows you to access the website without any login credentials of the added user.
Now that your public key has been connected to the InstaWP live site, you may copy the SSH command and paste it into your terminal to get a password-less login.
Hit enter and then type yes to execute.
Backup
You can download the backup file for your hosted live site since InstaWP automatically creates a backup every day and stores a separate shadow copy of the site, updated in sync, in another region.
Note: If a primary datacenter pool encounters an issue, it immediately fails over to the site's secondary datacenter pool, keeping the site operational and backup safe.
Note: The user can manually backup their files and databases, which will only be created once. To manually generate a backup again, users must first delete the previous one.
Map Domain
You can map your website with a new domain name by linking it to a web-hosting server, such as Cloudflare or Namecheap.
Step 1: Enter a domain name.
Step 2: Copy the domain name that you have entered and both the "A" records IP addreses, as will be needed to paste on DNS records for mapping.
Step 3: Go to your domain register panel (such as Cloudflare or Namecheap) to add a new record.
Step 4: Paste the domain name and IP address to the relevant fields, then click on the Save button.
Note: The user can only paste one IP address for every DNS record. For second IP address, they need to add new record and paste the same domain name with it
Step 5: Click on the Map domain button to complete mapping. For more information, refer to the Map Domain document.
This will complete your domain name mapping. You can refresh the page to see.
Delete
You can also delete your InstaWP live hosted site when not in use anymore.
💡 Did you know - You can offer templates combined with a hosting service to other users by creating a Waas. Learn more about WaaS.
Updated on: 10/04/2024
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