in this a2 hosting wordpress setup
tutorial i will show you step by step
how to purchase your hosting
register and connect your domain install
wordpress onto your website
and configure basic settings on your a2
hosting dashboard
at the end of this video i will give you
a very special offer
if you decide to pick up a2 hosting
through my link below
and i will give you my six figure
blogger course
for free in this course i will show you
how to set up your wordpress website
from start to finish how to adjust and
tweak settings
for optimal website performance and how
to start driving traffic and make money
through your site
now let's get started first you can
click on the link in the description
or type this into your browser it will
take you to my special a2 hosting
discount page
where you can get up to 66 percent off
your hosting
full transparency here this is an
affiliate link i will receive a small
commission
while you get a special discount and my
six figure blogging course for free so
it can be a win-win for both of us
so now we want to click on get started
and you will see
a2 hosting has four main plans you can
choose from
and the main features that differ
between these plans
are the number of websites you can host
the amount of web space
you can have and the speed your website
will be
so what i always recommend is to go with
either the startup or the drive plan
when you begin with
you only need that extra speed which the
turbo boost and turbo max offers you
once you have enough traffic so if
you're new go with the drive or startup
plan but if you're transferring or
migrating your website then go for the
turbo boost or turbo max
now the difference between the startup
and drive pretty much is the number of
websites if you're a local business
and you only need one website then go
with the startup
otherwise i would always recommend to go
with drive
as you can have a few websites and grow
your portfolio from there but if you
need more information on this pricing
check out this in-depth a2 hosting
review
and compared the pricing plan the speed
the support
and a few other things but for this
video i'm going to go
all out and get the turbo max plan the
next step
is to register your domain name what i
would recommend you do is to purchase it
from namecheap.com
if you need a step-by-step guide on this
i also have this video for you
but otherwise if you click on the link
in the description below
or type out this web link it will take
you to this page
where namecheap will show you their best
deals and if you scroll down you can see
right now their domain costs only 8.88
per year
as opposed to a2 hosting costing you
14.95 per year if you want the
convenience
then go with a2 hosting but if you want
a cheaper option
then go with namecheap i use namecheap
myself because i can have multiple
domains
all in the one place so i'll leave that
decision up to you
so i'm going to choose this option as i
have
a domain name already
so type in your domain name and click
use
the next step is to choose a length of
your hosting plan
you can see here they offer one month 12
month 24 and 36 month plans
i would always recommend you choose the
longest plan as it works out cheaper per
month
an a2 hosting has a unique offer which i
have not seen from any other hosting
provider
and that is their money back guarantee
so what
most other hosting providers offer is a
30 day money back guarantee
that is the industry standard but what
a2 hosting offers you is an anytime
money back guarantee
so for example if you're on a three year
plan you've used up
one year and you still have two to go
and you decide you want to cancel
a2 hosting is going to refund you the
amount
that two years is worth and no one else
in the industry does this
so for me this is a no-brainer you
should buy their longest plan
if you're not satisfied at any time of
that period you'll get the rest of your
money back
now we move on down further a2 has data
centers
in four locations i would always
recommend you choose
michigan if you have a global website
but if you have a local website then
always choose a data center that is
closest to your country
ssl certificates you only need the free
one don't pay extra for this
and now we can come down to the bottom
and you should make sure that your auto
install application is not selected
because if you install it right away
your username is going to be admin
and we don't want that because this
username is very common and will be more
prone to hackers
so i'm gonna uncheck this and now click
continue
make sure that you're happy with
everything that you have selected and
the price
and then click on checkout and now fill
out your personal details
choose your payment method agree to
their terms of service
and click on complete order so here's
your confirmation
page showing you that you've
successfully bought the plan
now we click on this button and it will
take you to a2 hosting's dashboard
you can see here their dashboard is
fairly simple
there's not much to it it is run by
cpanel so
the next step you need to do is connect
your domain name
if you were like me and bought your
domain from namecheap this would take
you less than one minute what you would
do
is click on account details this page
will pop
up and you see name servers here this is
what you would copy
and paste into namecheap so i will show
you that now
go to your namecheap dashboard select
your domain name that you want to link
to a2
hosting click on name server and select
custom dns
now you paste in the four name servers
that i showed you
before
and now click on this tick and that's it
it says it may take up to 48 hours to
take effect but this is really the case
for me it's always under an hour so now
that you can see the advantage of
getting your domain through namecheap
my question to you is are you going to
choose namecheap or a2hosting as your
domain name provider
let me know in the comments section
below once you log into cpanel by
clicking on this button
so cpanel is very simple and basic to
navigate so i'll quickly show you how to
set up an email account as a sample
so we just scroll down you can see
there's many things you can do to it you
can
add another domain here if you need to
or you can come down to here
and we can install cloudflare from here
very easily
so everything can be done from the
cpanel but like i said
let's do an email account so you just
click on create
put a username in put your password in
and then click on create okay so you can
see
our email account has been created it's
that simple
even though cpanel may not look as
pretty as some of the custom made
dashboard
it is very easy to navigate and do
things on and that's why i like cpanel
so now let's go back and do our one
click installation
so click on home and click on wordpress
a2 optimize
this is a special custom install which
a2 hosting provides us
and from my tests in my review video it
shows that optimizing and using a2
hosting's assets
will speed up your website by around
half a second
so this is worth doing for me and i'm
going to select this option
and i'll click on install now select my
website
make sure that it's https
choose your site name choose the
description
choose your username and your password
and your admin email
so make sure your username is not admin
like i said previously to you before
and have a safe password so i'm happy
with what they gave me
and i'm just going to save it in a safe
place and now we can come down and click
on install
just wait a couple minutes here and
that's it
the site has been successfully installed
so to check this
just right click here and open in a new
tab
and you see here our bare bones website
is up and running
another thing is your wordpress
dashboard link
is this link here so you should copy it
and put it somewhere safe
so if we right click and open this in a
new tab you can see here it takes you to
the wordpress dashboard
and another way of accessing our
dashboard is to go back
to the softaculous click on the home
page and you can click on the
installation
and click on admin this will also bring
you back to the dashboard
okay that's just another way of doing it
for you we still have another step to go
but i just wanted to quickly ask if
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every week the next thing we need to do
on our website is to make sure our ssl
certificate
has been activated and installed that
means it's going to give
your website this little lock icon
right so we click on it says connection
is secure
it's got a certificate so to do that
once again just
go to cpanel so we come down to the ssl
section
click on the ssl status choose our
domain name
select all and run auto ssl
and that's it it now shows that all our
domains
have been validated the next step is to
go to our subtaculus
and click on admin then click on
settings
general and make sure that both these
boxes
have http with an s in it and now the
last step
of the check is to go to here and click
on visit website
and now we can double check that our
website has a site lock
yep certificate is valid and our bare
bones website is now live
a quick note regarding my bonus offer to
you if you decide to get a2 hosting
through my link
you simply just have to send me your
full receipt to
bonus dot com dollar dot com and i will
send you the access to my course
it's that simple a unique feature of a2
hosting that i should mention
is their free and easy site migration
most other hosting providers don't offer
this
but if you're moving from another host
you just let a2 hosting know
and they will migrate your website for
you for free
now that you have your bare bones
wordpress website up and running
the next step is to fully build it out
this next video will help you do just
that
so check it out and i'll see you in the
next video