Your own website in 4 steps
- Web hosting - this is where all the website data is stored and made available 24/7
- Buy your domain - the address at which the website can be found
- Install WordPress - the content management system to design the site
- Create your website
Webhost
- The choice of web hosts is huge, so it's difficult to find the right one. I searched through various blogs, websites and reviews and finally decided on Webgo, a German provider that has very good ratings and uses green electricity to boot. Here is a brief overview of the advantages of Webgo:
- Let’s Encrypt kostenlos enthalten (außer in den Starter-Tarifen), damit bekommt die Website ein SSL Zertifikat. Das steht für „Secure-Sockets-Layer“ und verschlüsselt die Kommunikation von Daten, die von deinem Computer zu einem Server transportiert werden.
- 100% Uptime
- garantierter RAM
- schneller Support via E-Mail, Telefon oder Chat – hier habe ich immer tollen Support bekommen. Ich habe sehr oft den Live-Chat genutzt
- Übersichtliche Vertragsübersicht und einfacher Bestellvorgang
- sehr gute Ladezeiten und Verfügbarkeit
- die ersten 6 Monate kostenlos
- externe Domains einfach und ohne Zusatzkosten ausschaltbar
- große Auswahl an Skripten und Servereinstellungen
- 1-Click-Installer für WordPress
- Full-SSD-Hosting
- Eigene E-Mail-Postfächer ohne Zusatzkosten
- Kündigung und Abschluss von AV-Vertrag bequem online möglich
- PHP-Einstellungen bequem über webgo Webspace-Admin einstellbar
- http/2 und OPCache
- IP-Logging lässt sich ausschalten
Buy your domain
- I use "United Domains" (united-domains.de) to buy domains, which is a German Internet provider. Here, too, there is a manifold choice of providers. I was convinced by the simple administration and configuration of the domains with this provider.
WordPress
- WordPress is an open source software that lets you easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app. It's used by more bloggers, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies than all other vendors combined. I found that to be a compelling enough argument. It's free software that just needs to be installed and you're good to go.
Create your website
- To do this, you choose a theme in WordPress, make a few configurations, download plugins and just start building.
But before it can really start, the theory described above must be put into practice.
More about this in the upcoming article "The Set Up - First Steps“