[Free] Make Wordpress Hosting Easy With Plesk On Amazon Lightsail
Host your WordPress website on Amazon Lightsail and simplify WordPress WebOps with Plesk hosting platform – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Set up a private virtual server with the Plesk hosting platform on Amazon Lightsail.
- 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.
Requirements
- Basic understanding of concepts such as “website,” “IP address,” “firewall,” “server,” and “DNS”.
- Web browser and SSH terminal (e.g., PuTTY).
Description
Learn how to easily move from a slow and limited shared hosting account to your own lightning-fast cloud server and make WordPress hosting simple by offloading time-consuming operations like deployments, updates, and staging.Become a pro on Amazon Lightsail!
After completing this course, you will be able to:
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Spin up a cloud server on Amazon Lightsail – a simplified version of Amazon Web Services – in just a few clicks.
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Deploy a new WordPress website or move your existing website to your own new virtual server with the help of the powerful yet simple Plesk hosting platform, available as an application on Amazon Lightsail.
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Point your websites name to your new cloud server at your registrar, or start hosting your websites DNS zone yourself on Amazon Route 53 service.
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Protect connections to your website with a free SSL/TLS certificate.
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Offload time-consuming WordPress maintenance tasks, such as security, regular updates, and creating a staging environment using the WordPress Toolkit extension to Plesk.
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Ensure that mail originating on your cloud server reaches its destination and doesnt end up in the spam folder.
You dont have to be an IT professional to follow the instructions in this course. If you are already familiar with terms like website, server, and DNS zone – you are good to go. Well explain any additional terms as we go along.
Start hosting your WordPress website on your own Amazon Lightsail server today!
Author(s): Plesk University
