Deploy Your First Site in an Afternoon

Launching your first website feels bigger than it is. Our support team walks beginners through the same five steps every day, and the whole thing fits comfortably between lunch and dinner. Here is the exact order — and why the order matters.

1. Claim the domain first

Search for your name before you fall in love with it. Short, spellable and free of hyphens wins: if you have to spell it out on a call, keep looking. Register it for at least two years so a forgotten renewal never takes you offline.

2. Attach shared hosting

Point the domain at your hosting account and install your platform with the one-click installer. Shared hosting is plenty at this stage — you get email addresses, backups and SSL without touching a command line.

3. Turn on SSL before you share the link

Browsers warn visitors away from non-HTTPS sites, and search engines rank them lower. Enable the free certificate in your control panel first, then send the URL to friends. First impressions only happen once.

4. Create your email address

you@yourdomain.com costs nothing on Emberlane and instantly looks more serious than a free inbox. Set it up on your phone now so launch-day congratulations land somewhere professional.

5. Back it up, then announce it

Confirm nightly backups are running, load the site on your phone over cellular data, and only then post it everywhere. If anything looks off on mobile, fix it before the crowd arrives — most of them are on phones.

Stuck on any step? That is literally what our 24/7 support is for. Send a chat message and an engineer will click through it with you.