Websites and CMS

WordPress on a cloud server of its own

A WordPress site on a server of its own, with the web server, PHP and database already in place and the admin login waiting in your panel.

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About WordPress

WordPress is the open-source content management system behind a large share of all websites, from personal blogs to company sites and online shops built with WooCommerce. It is written in PHP, stores content in a MySQL-compatible database and is extended with tens of thousands of free and paid themes and plugins.

Its popularity is the main argument for it: almost any developer or agency can work with it, most third-party services offer a WordPress plugin, and answers to common questions are easy to find.

Running WordPress on a dedicated cloud server rather than on shared hosting makes sense when a site needs its own resources: a busy shop, a heavy page builder, custom PHP settings or server-side software that shared plans do not allow. You get root access and decide how the server is tuned.

What people use it for

A busy online shop

Give a WooCommerce store memory and processor time that are not shared with other customers' sites.

An agency's staging and client sites

Keep a project on a separate server where you control PHP settings, cron and server software.

A site with custom server needs

Install extra system packages or background workers next to WordPress, which shared hosting usually does not permit.

After you order

WordPress is installed on your server on its first start, running on Nginx, PHP and MariaDB, with ports 80 and 443 opened in the firewall. The admin area opens at http://your-server-address/wp-admin/; the administrator username and password are shown in the Rivervo panel. When your domain points to the server, the panel shows the command that switches the site to it (wp-set-domain example.com).

How it works

Choose WordPress on the server order page and pick a plan with enough memory.
The app is installed on the server on its first start, usually within a few minutes.
Open the server in your panel: the address and the sign-in details are there.

Questions about WordPress

A small site or blog with a light theme runs on the minimum of 1 GB of memory and 10 GB of disk. A shop, a page builder or many plugins run noticeably better on 2–4 GB.

Point the domain's A record to the server's IP address, then run the wp-set-domain command shown in the panel with your domain name instead of example.com.

Yes. WordPress, Nginx, PHP and MariaDB all run on ARM, and the app can be ordered on both x86 and ARM plans.