Manage Live Site (Overview)
Once an InstaWP Live site is created, it offers seamless site management, allowing you to configure settings and optimize performance, including purging cache for faster Time to First Byte (TTFB). Additionally, enabling single sign-on for your live website without the need for login credentials, and you can easily map your website to a new domain name through various hosting servers like Cloudflare or Namecheap.
In this documentation, we will provide you with an overview of how to manage a live-hosted site from the following:
Connect Settings
Hosting Settings
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Go to the Sites > InstaWP Live page and click on the vertical ellipsis of any live site. You'll see the InstaWP Live Hosted Site options.
This setting simplifies cache management by allowing you to purge WordPress cache, edge cache, and other temporary files, ensuring optimal performance and quick load times for your website. Click on Purge Cache, and it'll start purging the cache.
Once done, it'll show you the report.
This setting offers smooth web management of your live-hosted site by configuring the following options that are available:
Dashboard
Graphs
Plan Addons
Staging
SFTP/SSH
Backups
Map Domain
Run Commands
Settings
Delete
You can view your InstaWP Live - hosted website’s space & cores used with basic information such as PHP, WordPress version, or database size. For more information, refer to this document.
You can view and filter the graphs for your InstaWP live hosting site. For more information, refer to this document.
You can change pricing plans for your InstaWP live-hosted site according to your preferences. For more information, refer to this document.
InstaWP Live users get one staging site against every live site of InstaWP. The InstaWP native platform powers this feature. Name your staging domain on the box, choose the suffix, and click Create Staging**.
Your staging site will be ready within a few seconds.
You can add a SFTP/SSH user to establish a single sign-on for your live-hosted website without any login credentials of that user. For more information, refer to this document.
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. For more information, refer to this document.
You can map your website with a new domain name by linking it to a web-hosting server, such as Cloudflare or Namecheap. For more information, refer to this document.
You can run WP-CLI commands remotely on your InstaWP Live-hosted site. For more information, refer to this document.
You'll get multisite options from this option.
You can also delete your InstaWP live - hosted site when not in use anymore. For more information, refer to this document.
You can also use the following options, which are only accessible for your InstaWP Live hosted site.
DB Editor
Clone
View Logs
You can access your InstaWP Live site's database using phpMyAdmin, which provides a web interface for managing MySQL databases. For more information, refer to this document.
It'll take you to database.
You can clone your InstaWP live hosted site by creating a replica of your existing site with all the design, file system and database. For more information, refer to this document.
You can view different types of logs that are related to your InstaWP live hosted site such as PHP warning errors & web server related logs. For more information, refer to this document.
It'll take you to the logs page
💡 Did you know - You can install new plugins or themes, use the file manager, InstaWP DB editor, view debug logs, and more. Learn about how to manage your newly connected site.
In this documentation, we will provide you with an overview of how to manage a live-hosted site from the following:
Connect Settings
Hosting Settings
Let’s get started 🚀
Access Live Site Settings
Go to the Sites > InstaWP Live page and click on the vertical ellipsis of any live site. You'll see the InstaWP Live Hosted Site options.
Connect Settings
Purge Cache
This setting simplifies cache management by allowing you to purge WordPress cache, edge cache, and other temporary files, ensuring optimal performance and quick load times for your website. Click on Purge Cache, and it'll start purging the cache.
Once done, it'll show you the report.
Hosting Settings
This setting offers smooth web management of your live-hosted site by configuring the following options that are available:
Dashboard
Graphs
Plan Addons
Staging
SFTP/SSH
Backups
Map Domain
Run Commands
Settings
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. For more information, refer to this document.
Graphs
You can view and filter the graphs for your InstaWP live hosting site. For more information, refer to this document.
Plan Addons
You can change pricing plans for your InstaWP live-hosted site according to your preferences. For more information, refer to this document.
Staging
InstaWP Live users get one staging site against every live site of InstaWP. The InstaWP native platform powers this feature. Name your staging domain on the box, choose the suffix, and click Create Staging**.
Your staging site will be ready within a few seconds.
SFTP/SSH
You can add a SFTP/SSH user to establish a single sign-on for your live-hosted website without any login credentials of that user. For more information, refer to this document.
Backups
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. For more information, refer to this document.
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. For more information, refer to this document.
Run commands
You can run WP-CLI commands remotely on your InstaWP Live-hosted site. For more information, refer to this document.
Settings
You'll get multisite options from this option.
Delete
You can also delete your InstaWP live - hosted site when not in use anymore. For more information, refer to this document.
You can also use the following options, which are only accessible for your InstaWP Live hosted site.
DB Editor
Clone
View Logs
DB Editor
You can access your InstaWP Live site's database using phpMyAdmin, which provides a web interface for managing MySQL databases. For more information, refer to this document.
It'll take you to database.
Clone
You can clone your InstaWP live hosted site by creating a replica of your existing site with all the design, file system and database. For more information, refer to this document.
View Logs
You can view different types of logs that are related to your InstaWP live hosted site such as PHP warning errors & web server related logs. For more information, refer to this document.
It'll take you to the logs page
💡 Did you know - You can install new plugins or themes, use the file manager, InstaWP DB editor, view debug logs, and more. Learn about how to manage your newly connected site.
Updated on: 23/04/2025
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