Knowledge base
Creating your first site
What each choice on the new-site screen means, and what you get in the first minute.
A new site is live in about a minute, before you have pointed a domain at it.
What you are choosing
The stack. WordPress, WooCommerce, plain PHP, Node or a static build. WordPress and WooCommerce arrive installed, updated and with our cache plugin already in place — there is no five-minute install afterwards.
Where it runs. Pick the location nearest your visitors. Moving a site to a different location later is a supported operation and takes minutes, so this is not a decision you are stuck with.
Which plan pays for it. The site counts against that plan's site, storage and bandwidth allowance. Billing → Usage shows what you have left before you create it.
What you get immediately
- A working address of the form
something.zinnsites.com, with a valid certificate. - An admin login for the application, shown once on the screen and then only through
- Backups from the first night.
Sites → your site → Credentials.
Then point a domain at it
Open the site, go to Domains, and either register a new one or connect one you already own. The certificate for the real domain is issued automatically once DNS resolves, usually within a few minutes.
⭐ You do not need to wait for the domain to start work. Build on the temporary address and attach the domain when you are ready; nothing about the site changes when you do.
Still stuck?
Support is included on every plan and answers in your own language.
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