Creating your first site

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. The list shows only the cities where we have room for a new site today. The location is set when the site is created, so choose it before you start building.

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

Sites → your site → Credentials.

• The application named after the name you gave the site. If you left the name blank it gets a

plain one in your language, such as "My Learning Site" for Moodle or "My Online Store" for a shop, never the address. Change it any time in the application itself — in Moodle, Site administration → Site home → Site home settings → Full site name and Short name.

• Backups from the first night.

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.