What is Umbraco Cloud?
Here you can find information about getting started working with Umbraco Cloud.
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Umbraco Cloud is a hosting option for your favorite Umbraco CMS offered by Umbraco HQ. Built on Microsoft Azure Cloud and encompassing web standard approaches, Umbraco Cloud is familiar to Umbraco's new and old users. With Umbraco Cloud, there are no limits to what you can accomplish. You can do anything with Umbraco and web technology with Umbraco Cloud.
Umbraco Cloud takes care of installation, infrastructure, and security. You will also get the tools to work with your project in the Cloud or locally. Local development starts with cloning the project down to your PC or Linux/macOS.
When you are ready to show your work to the world, Umbraco Cloud provides a safe deployment mechanism that lets you publish to the web. When you have changes or updates to your site, Umbraco Cloud follows the process of moving, testing, and deploying your changes to your public site.
Umbraco Cloud offers shared hosting in 3 different plans:
Starter
Standard
Professional
Learn more about the quotas put in place to ensure the stability of your website.
The easiest way to start with an Umbraco Cloud project is to take a 14-day free trial. The project is automatically created and you are ready to start within a few minutes.
Since everything is already set up for you, it is recommended that you get to know your project before you start building.
To start working with and building your site, you can either work directly in the backoffice on the Cloud environment or clone down the project to your local machine.
To create a project from the Umbraco Cloud Portal:
Log in to the Umbraco Cloud Portal with your credentials.
Click Create Project.
Select Umbraco Cloud from the list of projects.
Choose a Plan Selection as per your choice.
Choose the Umbraco version for your Project.
Enter the Project Name.
Choose a Region.
Choose a Project Owner.
Add a Technical Contact to your project.
Click Continue.
Verify that everything looks correct.
Check I have read and agree to the terms and conditions and the Data Processing Agreement.
Click Create Project.
When you create a Trial project a unique project name will be generated for you.
When you create a new Project from the Umbraco Cloud Portal you must give the project a name.
All project names are unique.
Once a project is created, you can get an overview of it from the Umbraco Cloud Portal:
Log in to the Umbraco Cloud Portal.
Select your Project from the Projects dashboard.
Click on Overview from the left side menu.
The Overview menu consists of:
A place to manage the Environments on your project.
A place to manage the Team that has access to your project.
A page that gives a Summary of your project, like when it was created, that plan, and more.
Umbraco HQ offers a training course covering best practices for developing with Umbraco Cloud. The course targets frontend and backend developers who currently work or plan to work with Umbraco Cloud.
Explore the Umbraco Cloud Developer Training Course to learn more about the topics covered and how they can enhance your Umbraco development skills.
