Sites
Summary
The Sites tab lets you create new sites and view statistics of existing sites. All sites are bound to a single property,
but you can have many sites for a given property. In the screenshot below, this is for the example property that we
configured previously.
To get started, click on the + Site button:
Create
Create your site by specifying the following settings:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | A useful name for the website |
| Type | The website type and version |
| Datacenter | The datacenter where the website will run |
| Storage | The amount of file storage for the website in gigabytes |
| Database Storage | The amount of database storage for the website in gigabytes |
| Restore? | Restore the site from a previous backup |
Clone
You can clone existing sites to a new site by clicking on the Clone button:
Cloning sites will temporarily stop the parent (source) site while the data is cloned, which can lead to a minor
amount of disruption. The duration of the interruption depends on the amount of data (files + database) in your site,
but most Clone operations complete in less than 5 minutes (typically).
Specify the following settings for the new (cloned) site:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | A useful name for the website |
| Property | The Property the new site should be associated with |
| Type | The website type and version |
| Datacenter | The datacenter where the website will run |
| Storage | The amount of file storage for the website in gigabytes |
| Database Storage | The amount of database storage for the website in gigabytes |
Once completed, you should see both your source and cloned site in your site list:
Edit
Once created or cloned, you can edit the site and add additional settings.
You will only be able to select a Domain for a domain that is correctly setup in public DNS. If you have not
yet configured your registrar info, or it has not been updated yet, you will not be able to select a Domain.
Specify the following settings for the Site you are editing:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | A useful name for the website |
| Storage | The amount of file storage for the website in gigabytes |
| Database Storage | The amount of database (MariaDB) storage for the website in gigabytes |
| Production? | Enable production mode for the websites which automatically enables CDN and REDIS cache |
| Backup? | Perform periodic (daily) backups of the website and database storage |
| FileManager? | Enable FileManager access (http + sftp) |
| Custom DNS? | Use custom or self-managed DNS for the site |
| Domain | The domain for the website (if empty, accessible via origin domain directly using mywordpress.io) |
| Primary Hostname | The primary hostname for the website, if Domain is non-empty. If you want to use the apex domain (e.g., reseller.org in our example), put {apex} here. |
| Alias Hostnames | Additional hostname(s) for the website, which all redirect to the Primary Hostname value automatically in the users browser. |
The example above is not exhaustive, and only shows creating a simple test site. For a Production site, you would
also probably want to enable Production? and Backup? toggles, and select a validated Domain from the drop-down so
DNS is also automatically configured for you. If you are using DNS services outside of MyWordPress.io, review the
Custom DNS section in the docs.
After saving your new site, the platform will create it, setup DNS automatically (if required), setup CDN automatically (if required) and enable REDIS (if required) for caching.
Next Steps
After creating your Client site, you can now move on to adding Emails or move
directly on to Payment Requests.