Hosting your own website

Most people nowadays have their own domain with their own hosting.It is becoming more and more common to have your own website. It is also handy to have when you have your own business, because it makes it easier to be found.

This may sound very complicated, but fortunately it is a lot easier nowadays thanks to systems such as WordPress.In this blog post we will discuss how you can put your website live at MijnHostingPartner.

How do I create my website?

To start with you need your own website, you can of course hire a developer for this.This can cost a lot of money so it might be interesting to do this yourself.
An easy system to start with is WordPress. WordPress is designed to make it as easy as possible to create a website.Besides being easy to use, you can also install it within a few moments.

To install WordPress you first need to create a database and a database user.Check if the write permissions are on and put the installation files of WordPress in the wwwroot folder, then unzip them.When you go to your website you will see the WordPress installation screen.

Choose your language and fill in your database information, if this is correct you will see the next screen.Here you fill in the information for your admin account, we recommend using a strong password.
For a strong password you can use our Password Generator
, this will always give you a strong password.If you have created this then you can use WordPress on your a href="https://www.mijnhostingpartner.nl/" title="hosting">hosting.

Maintenance

With a website you should also perform maintenance, if you do not do this then your website could become a target for malicious people.It is therefore important that you keep track of all updates, this applies to your website, plugins and the theme itself.

At MijnHostingPartner WordPress websites can be updated automatically.For this we have Managed WordPress hosting, everything is updated automatically.Whether you have much or little experience in the world of WordPress this is always useful because it can save you a lot of time.

If you have any questions about WordPress you can always see if one of our chat agents is available.If there is no one on the chat then you can always create a ticket to our helpdesk.