Business Website

Martynt74 · 4 Aug 2015 at 15:51

Weebly again seems a lot more (cost wise) than manual hosting.

I've purchased a doman and signed up for the free 000webhost account but looks like the free email accounts are limited to 20mb which is pretty much bugger all. Think I'll go with Vidahost as mentioned above. Unless there are any other free ones with slightly better storage limits?

EDIT – Say I bought a domain name (.co.uk) and Vidahosts offer a free domain with their hosting services. How would I go about getting the .com version free with the host and then point my registered .co.uk towards the .com site to get the best of both .co.uk and .com domains?

AHarvey · 4 Aug 2015 at 16:07

is the .com free? if not, as you have the .co.uk you can also claim the .uk version.

All you do is point the nameservers for each name to the same hosting package. Vidahost support and docs are great but it should just be a case of either transferring the .co.uk to vidahost as well, or login to the domain provider and point nameservers the vidahost ones.

With Free you're always going to have limitations, I use them for testing really.

Martynt74 · 4 Aug 2015 at 16:12

Yeah the .com was showing as free so thought since I'd already bought the .co.uk (£4 for 2 years) I could use both rather than having wasted the £4.

butcherster · 4 Aug 2015 at 17:02

+1 for squarespace

If you host your own make sure you have backups for both database and application files.

AHarvey · 5 Aug 2015 at 00:20

butcherster said:
+1 for squarespace

If you host your own make sure you have backups for both database and application files.

You can get plugins for Wordpress that create backups of both automatically. You can set a schedule as well as how many copies to keep before it starts overwriting them

Mark M · 5 Aug 2015 at 10:10

AHarvey said:
You can get plugins for Wordpress that create backups of both automatically. You can set a schedule as well as how many copies to keep before it starts overwriting them

What WP plugin are you using AHarvey? Its something Ive been meaning to do for ages now.

AHarvey · 5 Aug 2015 at 10:32

Mark M said:
What WP plugin are you using AHarvey? Its something Ive been meaning to do for ages now.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/

Martynt74 · 7 Aug 2015 at 08:23

Nice one guys.

I'm all set up. Domain is sorted and host is sorted along with a very basic thing created so far while my wife and I play with themes.

One question though. My domain is www.silverbirchhydrotherapy.co.uk. The wordpress is set up on www.silverbirchhydrotherapy.co.uk/wp

How do I set the wordpress part to be on the main URL? I thought I'd found the right bit in the settings but no luck.

AHarvey · 7 Aug 2015 at 09:07

I'm guessing you've installed it via the cpanel options?

When you install wordpress it asks what directory you want it installed to, as default it is set to wp so everything is going to be "domain/wp/page".

Best way, uninstall, reinstall and set that field to blank

Martynt74 · 7 Aug 2015 at 10:07

Oh bugger. Can I export the Wordpress and then reimport to save the settings I've made?

Yes about the Cpanel installation.

butcherster · 7 Aug 2015 at 10:12

I'm pretty sure there's an option in wordpress admin to export content, which you can then re-import.

Whoop · 7 Aug 2015 at 16:19

Doesn't WP fix that problem for you if you go to Settings > General and change the WordPress Address / Site Address to be the same thing? I have a feeling I had the same issue when I setup WP before the domain went live.

AHarvey · 7 Aug 2015 at 16:29

No idea, I've always noticed it as soon as i've installed so it was just super easy to delete and reinstall correctly