In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to buy and install
your WordPress website on dreamhost step by step.
I will show you which hosting plan you should choose and the actual buying process
i will then show you how to install wordpress on dreamhost the right way and choosing the correct
settings at the end of this video i will give you a very special offer if you decide to pick
up dreamhost through my link below i will give you my six figure blogger course for free as a bonus
and just a way of saying thank you for supporting my channel now let's get started step one click on
the link in the description or type this into your browser it will take you to my special dream host
discount page where you will get the best discount dream host is currently offering full transparency
this is an affiliate link i will receive a small commission while you get a great discount
and my six figure blogger course for free so it can be a win-win situation for the both of us
now dreamhost has many different types of postings they have shared hosting vps managed dedicated
cloud hosting so they can support you no matter what level or budget you're on but in this case
we're going to go with the shared hosting so i will click on this shared wordpress hosting and
it will bring you to this page and now we scroll down and these are the two options available for
your wordpress plan dreamhost keeps it very simple you either have the one website for 2.59 per month
or you can have unlimited websites for 4.95 per month and there's no real other differences for
the two plans speed are the same capacity is the same storage is the same and you get your free ssl
certificate now there are some differences here if you decide to pick it up for a monthly plan
or one year the price is going to be different so for three years it's 259 but if you do one year
it's going to go up to 395 and if you go monthly it's going to be even more expensive at 4.95
so what i always recommend everyone is to go for the three year plan as it is the cheapest
and dream host has a very generous money back guarantee promise they give you 97 days
of money back guarantee which is about three times longer than most companies so within 97
days i'm sure you would have decided if you want to continue with dreamhost and if you do then it's
going to be super cheap on the three year plan but in this tutorial i'm just going to go to one year
and select the wordpress unlimited plan and click sign up now now we're on the domain page you can
either choose an existing domain or register a new domain with dreamhost as you may know from
my previous videos i never recommend anyone to buy their domain name from a hosting provider
as they always charge a lot more money than just getting it from somewhere like namecheap which i
do myself dreamhost is different though they're very good and don't rip you off
for example a dot-com domain from dreamhost will only cost you 6.99 for the first year this is even
cheaper than buying from namecheap.com which i do however though the renewal cost is 15.99 which is
a little bit more than name cheap but it's still a great offer and to sweeten the deal dreamhost also
provides you with a free private registration this means that your personal details are anonymous
and marketers can't contact you constantly and try and upsell you on their services but you
also get this for free on namecheap.com so what i recommend you do is if you only have
one website and you're happy with dreamhost then just purchase the domain with them but
if you want to buy a few different domains and set up on a few different websites then go with
namecheap like i did okay back to the domain section i'm going to go back because i already
have a domain i'm going to use so i will click i already have a domain now i will type it in here
click on assign now we choose the payment method fill out your payment details and then
the next section is to set up with your personal information and once you've done all that you can
scroll down to the additional options section now the first additional option is dream host
pre-installed wordpress you can click on this if you want as it will save you time but i'd like to
do it myself from the beginning and i'm also going to show you how to do it step by step so you know
in the future how to do this i'm gonna uncheck that the next item is the dream shield protection
i don't think you need this for three dollars a month it's very expensive there are much better
other plugins out there and some are free and it can do a similar job so i'm going to uncheck
this as well and now we need to check the total amount due and if you're happy with that then
you can go to the submit order and click on that give it a few moments and that's it your account
has been approved and created now you can input the new password that you want for this account
and then click on continue to control panel and it will bring you to this dashboard page and before
we go any further if you have your domain name from namecheap like me then i will show you how to
connect that with dreamhost so what you do is go to your email address and you should have received
three emails from dreamhost one of them will contain the name servers that you need to point
your namecheap account to and that's down here okay so i'm gonna copy this
and then i'm gonna go to my namecheap account select the domain that i want
click on manage and now come down to the name server section and paste it into here
okay and just make sure they match here once you're happy click on save here
and that's it it's that simple and now it's done even though it says it may take up to 48 hours
this is really the case normally it'll be ready in under an hour so just come back and check and
if it's not ready just wait a little while so now that our domain name is connected to dreamhost we
can go ahead and install wordpress we can go to domain and click on one click installs now go to
learn more and install select your domain name here and then click on install it for me now
and that's it it's literally a one click install so what you do now is wait until you receive
an email from dreamhost with your new account details so here's the email that i just received
now you come down and click on this link and you will see it will not work because our ssl
certificate has not been installed so let's go back to our dashboard go to domains and then
click on ssl certificates and select the domain we want and click on add select the free option
and that's it it's that easy it now shows our ssl certificate has been installed and our website
should now be secured and now we can come back to our previous page and refresh it and it will
now work and we can create our new password click on confirm and then click reset password
let's log in put in our email address and password click login again and now you can see we're in
so just close this as we don't need it and go to our dashboard and then just to confirm the website
is up and running hover over to here and click on visit site and you can see here our bare bones
website has been installed successfully and the ssl certificate has also been activated we still
have another step to go but i just wanted to ask you if you're getting value out of my video so far
if so make sure to like my video and subscribe to my channel so you don't miss out on quality
content that i release every single week now the last step is to create an email address this can
also easily be done by going to the mail section and clicking on manage email and now click on
create a new email address put in your details here and now scroll down and click on create
address and that's it your email account has been created it's really simple and easy on dreamhost
to do this just a quick note on my bonus offer to you if you decide to pick up dreamhost through my
link just send me a receipt to bonus dot com dollar dot com and i will send you the access
to my bonus course it's that easy now that you have successfully installed wordpress onto your
bare bones dream host hosting account it's time to go and fully build out your wordpress website
and this video will help you with exactly that so check it out and i'll see you in that next video