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In this chapter you'll set up several different hosting and development environments for building your

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Wordpress Web sites.

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This video will introduce you to all the types of hosting and development systems including shared hosting

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dedicated servers and cloud hosting managed WordPress hosting and local development environments.

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By the end of this video you'll know about all these hosting systems the benefits and drawbacks of each

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as well as several different ways of building WordPress locally.

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Without an internet connection let's get started.

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Shared hosting is an inexpensive way to get started with web site hosting its advantages in price but

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it has some drawbacks because other sites are using the same server space and all the sites on the server

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are sharing resources shared hosting means that if one site starts using all the available memory storage

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space or bandwidth the other sites on the same server can be put at risk of slowing down or at worst

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going down for a period of time.

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Modern hosting companies have protocols in place like site monitoring resource limit warnings and other

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processes in place to prevent sites from going down.

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So shared hosting programs are a good place to start to keep a development environment that will not

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see much traffic or to keep small sites with little resource usage as the site grows in popularity traffic

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and file size.

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It may be smart to move to another type of hosting account and will get into migrating WordPress Web

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sites to different hosts later in this course.

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Some examples of popular and tested shared hosting environments are Rob Percival's own eco web hosting

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site grounds WordPress specific shared hosting programs.

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If you're getting started these companies can offer you a space to build multiple Web sites and take

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them live for a very small investment.

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Most of the hosting companies offer an upgrade from shared hosting splitting off the server space into

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private hosting areas called Dedicated or private servers.

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There's a middle ground which is very effective at separating web sites from each other but doesn't

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have to cost as much as full private servers called a VPN or virtual private server VPN just means that

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the hosting company has partitioned the hardware and disk space that holds the website hosting areas

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into separate spaces so that each hosting space can't affect the others on the same master server to

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the end user who's purchasing the hosting.

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There's effectively no difference between a dedicated server and a virtual private server.

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The end result is the same cloud hosting takes this idea one step further and enabling the server to

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stretch and grow instead of losing speed or going down in the event of a traffic spike or a need for

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expansion.

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Cloud hosting is a good way to provide hosting for a group of clients in one place.

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As a web site designer in my business I use site grounds cloud hosting program so I can host and take

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care of all of my clients web sites in one place give them access to the server for just their own site

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if they need it.

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A control panel and pay one inexpensive price for the package.

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It lets We charge a monthly or yearly fee for web site hosting and maintenance without having to work

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with a lot of different hosts that my clients have chosen.

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My hosting and Web site maintenance and care plans are what let me achieve a level of recurring income

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in my business and I'd recommend you do the same thing in the next video will be setting up a free student

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sandbox hosting account at site Ground specially made for W.P. of course students at the students W.P.

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of course dot com website down at their site.

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Ground link you'll see that they're offering a special deal for Greg Davis students three months of

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free hosting so that you can set up sites and work on them in the site ground environment another level

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up for Wordpress hosting is the idea of managed WordPress hosting several hosting companies have seen

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the popularity of Wordpress grow and are filling a need for designers and developers managed WordPress

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hosting is a server setup that has additional thought built into the server architecture and layers

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of programs in the server setup for site speed reliability ease of use and other WordPress specific

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needs.

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Manage hosting programs usually have a caching layer to drastically speed up the loading of Wordpress

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Web sites improving the experience for the end user.

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Managed WordPress hosting companies also optimize the hardware and server programs for the way WordPress

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works in every way they can.

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This is a little more expensive to use but there are a lot of advantages.

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I use flywheel WordPress hosting for my own sites and client sites who expect to have more traffic where

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speed is important like site ground.

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Flywheel is offering WP dev course students a special deal on a free development environment for working

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on sites in the students that WP dev course does come resources page.

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Again the link to flywheel will open up a free 60 day trial where you can develop a site on the fly

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wheel platform specially for WP dev.

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Course students will be setting that up in this chapter.

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Cloud ways is an interesting company as well and I use them for spinning up sites quickly for development

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and very inexpensive hosting.

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They might be considered a hybrid between cloud hosting and managed hosting because you can easily install

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WordPress in a very fast optimized environment.

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But as far as security and a firewall for hacking attempts and traffic filtration it's more of a manual

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experience.

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I found that I have to be diligent with sites hosted at cloud ways because they are more exposed to

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robot or bot traffic which can degrade performance.

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The fully managed hosting companies provide a firewall between you and these potential attacks.

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You can do your own research to find which hosting company fits your vision for your business online

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and reviews signal.

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Dot Com has a lot of independent reviews and comparisons.

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There is a WordPress hosting benchmarks test article that they've written for a few years in a row and

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that's where I've narrowed my choices and improved my client's site's performance support and ease of

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use for your particular business.

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Are other important considerations.

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So review sites like this one are an important part of choosing a website hosting company.

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The resource pages at WP dev course dot com and here in this course have special student discounts and

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updated recommendations based on my experience.

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So be sure and check those out.

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We took a tour in the last chapter of map available at map that info and how you can use it to set up

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a local development environment on your own computer.

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There are some other options as well that make it easy to set up Wordpress and play with it locally

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or without having to be connected to the Internet.

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Each one of these options builds a server on your local computer just like map and they're all pretty

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easy to use a map alternative is called zap x.

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Am P-P and it works exactly the same way as map but it was originally designed for Windows while map

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was originally for the Mac platform.

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It now supports both and the same is true of them.

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It's available here at Apache friends dot work desktop server is a program that can set up local environments

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too and it's available at server press dot com.

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Another option is called Instant WordPress designed to set up WordPress local environments exclusively

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and available at instant W.P. dot com.

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I'll be teaching how to install a map for a local environment and will also be signing up for a free

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flywheel account and a free site Ground account to create the sites we'll be building in this course.

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In this video we explored hosting options and development environments from shared hosting to cloud

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hosting and managed WordPress hosting.

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There are options for every purpose in your business.

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We also looked at options for easily setting up local development environments for staging building

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sites locally without having to be connected to the Internet and playing with wordpress for learning

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in the next few videos you'll set up your own systems.

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Many of these hosting environments as well as set up your own local development environment.

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Here we go