WordPress Cloud Hosting

Quick, Simple, and Scalable WordPress Cloud Hosting

What is WordPress Cloud Hosting?

Why WordPress cloud hosting? Because it’s currently the top content management system on the internet – and for good reason! With its staggering range of features and customization options, you'll be able to create a website or blog that's limited only by your imagination. As an open-source application, WordPress is constantly being updated by hundreds of developers across the globe.

WordPress's amazing features make it easy to customize your blog or website to your exact specifications. A wide variety of themes enable you to carefully craft the look and functionality of your site, and custom themes can even be uploaded via FTP or directly installed using WordPress's Dashboard control panel.

The open-source nature of WordPress allows for access to tens of thousands of pre-installed and user-created plugins and widgets that expand your site's functionality. WordPress also offers an easy-to-use permalink structure suitable for creating a webpage instead of a blog, full integrated link management, multi-user capability, tagging support, and advanced spam protection features. And in the unlikely event that you require a feature that WordPress doesn't yet offer, you can create the plugin yourself or submit a request for a developer to create it for you using the support forums.

In terms of sheer power and functionality, WordPress can't be beat as a blog creation tool and content management system. Its over 60 million current users – including CNN, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal – attest to the software's quality and ease-of-use. WordPress reduces setting up your own website or blog to a matter of seconds, but its endless features, widgets, and plugins allow for unlimited hours of customization.

How to Get WordPress Cloud Hosting from Steadfast Networks

As a Steadfast Networks customer, you can get access to WordPress and a huge variety of other JumpBox applications for free when you subscribe to one of our Cloud Platform plans, starting at just $20 per month. Once you're a subscriber, accessing WordPress is incredibly easy. All you need to do is choose Ubuntu as your operating system, then choose JumpBox WordPress.

Tutorial: How to Install WordPress in Ubuntu Server 10.04

WordPress Cloud Hosting System Requirements

WordPress has a few very basic requirements. Installing WordPress via JumpBox means you'll automatically install the required dependencies along with the basic software, but if you're doing an installation from scratch, here's what you'll need:

PHP
Version 5.2.4+
MySQL
Version 5.0+
Web Server
Apache or Nginx are recommended, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will be supported
You'll also need the mod_rewrite module for Apache

Any operating system and web browser should be supported by WordPress. For detailed installation instructions, check out this page.

Tips, Tricks, and Documentation for WordPress Cloud Hosting

WordPress's robust website offers a huge number of helpful resources. Check out the Codex, which acts as an online manual and documentation source. You can also visit the Forums for additional support, and access the Blog to keep track of any WordPress news.

You can also take a look at the following websites for more information to enrich your understanding of WordPress: