Make WordPress Hosting Easy with Plesk on Hetzner Cloud

Name: Make WordPress Hosting Easy with Plesk on Hetzner Cloud
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Host your WordPress website on Hetzner Cloud and simplify WordPress WebOps with Plesk hosting platform

Last updated 4/2020

English

What you'll learn

Set up a private virtual server with the Plesk hosting platform on Hetzner Cloud.
Deploy a new WordPress website or move your existing website to your new server.
Use the Plesk WordPress Toolkit extension to secure, update, and maintain your WordPress website.

6 sections • 25 lectures • 56m total length

Installing Plesk4:15
Overview of the Plesk Platform3:51
Explore the Plesk platform post-installation, including the power user view, Websites & Domains, and extensions like Git, WordPress toolkit, and Docker manager for hosting management.
Pointing Your Domain's DNS to Your Server Using DomainConnect2:38
Using Hetzner Robot for DNS Hosting4:54
Connect Plesk to Hetzner Robot for DNS hosting, configure ACL for zone transfers, set NS records to Hetzner, and update the registrar to make Hetzner the authoritative DNS.
Securing Your Plesk Server3:20

Introducing WordPress Toolkit2:55
Creating a New WordPress Website1:14
Create a new WordPress website quickly with the WordPress toolkit. Configure domain, site title, admin credentials, and install plugins like Jetpack and Google Analytics.
Importing Your Existing WordPress Website to Plesk1:24
Managing a Remote WordPress Website1:23
Securing Your WordPress Websites1:22
Updating WordPress on Your Website2:40
Setting Up Automatic Updates for WordPress Websites1:06
Configure automatic updates for WordPress websites with the WordPress toolkit, which automatically applies minor updates within the same release and uses smart updates to determine safety for major changes.
Creating a Staging Environment1:00
Publishing from Staging to Production1:09

Basic understanding of concepts such as "website," "IP address," "firewall," "server," and "DNS".
Web browser and SSH terminal (e.g., PuTTY).

Do you want to move from a slow and limited shared hosting account to your own lightning-fast cloud server, but cloud hosting seems overwhelming?

Do you want to save time and simplify WordPress website hosting by offloading time-consuming operations like deployments, updates, and staging?

If your answer to either of these questions is yes, then this course is for you!

Following steps shown in this course, you will be able to:

Create a cloud server on the Hetzner Cloud platform.
Install a simple yet powerful Plesk hosting platform on your cloud server to help you manage websites, mail, and DNS.
Deploy a new WordPress website or move your existing website to your new cloud server.
Point your website’s name to your server at your registrar, or start hosting your website’s DNS zone Hetzner Robot DNS hosting service.
Protect connections to your website with a free SSL/TLS certificate.
Simplify time-consuming WordPress maintenance tasks, such as security, regular updates, and creating a staging environment with the WordPress Toolkit extension to Plesk.
Make sure that email originating on your cloud server reaches its destination and doesn’t end up in the spam folder.

You don’t have to be an IT guru to do all of this. We will guide you through every action and explain the necessary terms as we go.

Don’t miss out on the benefits of hosting your WordPress website on your own cloud server by Hetzner!

Beginner web professionals curious about website hosting on Hetzner Cloud.
Web professionals interested in moving from a shared hosting setup to a private virtual server in the cloud.