Create a site

Add a WordPress site or an empty environment: pick a data center, set the first WordPress administrator and language, and follow the site while it is created.

Parts of this feature are still being built. The Not yet section lists them.

Open Sites, then Add site. The window walks you through a few short steps. You need permission to create sites.

1. Choose how the site starts

Install WordPress: the latest WordPress on PHP 8.5, ready to sign in to.
Empty environment: PHP 8.5 without WordPress. You add your own code through Git or SFTP.

Pick a card, then Continue.

2. Site options

Site name: only visible in the Avaloi dashboard. You can rename the site later.
WordPress type (WordPress only): Fresh WordPress, WooCommerce, or Multisite.
PHP version: PHP 8.5 unless you pick another.
Data center location: grouped by continent, with the default location first. Pick the one closest to your visitors. Locations that are not open yet are listed but cannot be picked. See Region pricing.
Plan: each site takes one slot of a plan for the same location. If no plan has a free slot, Buy a new plan starts a plan inside the same window and then creates the site. See Billing and plans.

The step also lists what every new site gets: the server page cache, the Cloudflare CDN for images, CSS, and JavaScript, and Brotli or gzip compression with HTTP/3. See Performance defaults.

3. WordPress options

Avaloi suggests the first WordPress administrator:

Email: your account email. Change it if someone else runs the site.
Username: a random name that starts with admin. Avaloi refuses admin, administrator, and root, because bots try them first.
Password: 20 random letters, numbers, and symbols, made in your browser. Use the eye button to show it, the arrow button for a new one, and Copy password to put it on your clipboard.

Save the username and password in your password manager before you go on. Once you close the window, you cannot see them again. Avaloi never stores the password: it goes to your server once, and the setup job deletes it when it finishes. If you lose it, send yourself a reset from WordPress, or sign in with one click login.

Then set the WordPress site title, which shows across the top of every page, and the Language. Languages other than English (United States) download from WordPress.org while the site is set up.

Select Create site.

4. While the site is created

The window says Your site is being created. You can close it and keep working: the Sites list shows the site as Creating, and the job is in the jobs drawer. When the site is ready, Manage domains opens the Domains page so you can add your domain and go live.

If the setup fails, the window shows the reason and a link to the site.

Test sites

When your account offers test sites, the Create a test site switch makes a free site on a simulated server. Test sites skip the location and the plan.

API

GET /v1/regions lists the data center locations.
GET /v1/platform says whether sites can be created and which location is the default.
POST /v1/sites creates the site and answers with a job. Send template, region, php_version, site_title, admin_email, admin_username, admin_password, and locale.
GET /v1/jobs/{id} and GET /v1/sites/{id} show the progress.
MCP tool: create_site

Not yet

Cloudflare's edge page cache is not on for live traffic yet, so pages come from the server page cache. See Edge cache and CDN.

Still stuck?

Email [email protected] with your site name and what you tried, or send us a message.