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I am trying to build my site for the first time and i’ve been talking to a few developers. I have browsed a few threads and my main concern is safety. I use hostinger to host my site , so should I give the developer access to my hostinger account or only create a wordpress user account for them? Is there anything else I need to do? I keep reading about ‘FTP” account but I have no idea what that is and how I should create one and what purpose it even serves. any help would be really appreciated.
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Create a WordPress account. You’ll most likely need to give them the admin role.
You need to create a contract with specific tasks to accomplish so everything it is clear, and the dev needs to tell you how it is going to work.
But you need to be in full control of hosting, server and domain access. If they ask admin access for it, ask for what purpose exactly they need and ask your hosting provider to do that for you. Unless you trust this person you only delegate a restricted access to the server or services he will work.
A WordPress site needs a database with writing credentials and access to the folder of the website for troubleshoot. FTP allow you to grant root access or a specific folder from your server you want, ideally where the WordPress site is stored.
It seems that the cloud startup plan from Hostinger gives you priority tech support.
If I was you I would ask the server tech support to install WordPress in a subdomain like dev.yourdomain.com and an ftp credentials to that site.
Once the job is done you can ask the server tech support to transfer this site to the root domain. They might charge, but that way you are always on top of what is done and the server guarantee the security in a way.
Let me know if you have more questions
Any WordPress developer is going to need access to your hosting service cPanel, shell access to the server, access to your database, and an administrator account on your WordPress instance itself. Unless your site is a very very basic non-interactive blog, the kind of thing you could set up on a low-end WordPress.com account. They will also need credentials to your payment service accounts if you’re doing a store or taking payments.
There are lots of reasons for this. One that comes to mind is configuring the DNS settings to allow integrating a bulk email service. Don’t know what that means? That’s my point. (No, you can’t just get your web site to use your personal gmail account to send emails to your users.)
Your auto mechanic needs to be able to open the hood of your car. And if your lug nuts have locks on them they need the key. This is the same deal.
You can change the passwords and delete the developer’s personal accounts when the developer is done. A good developer will give you a list of things to change and delete.
developer develops the site on his own development server, when he is done and you are happy you can contact hostinger on how to safely transfer the site on your server. By that time you should have built a trust and a proper relationship with the developer and work out the details, support, access etc
Only use Codeable.io they’re absoloutely amazing, have a money back guarantee and a really hard platform to get onto and join if a dev, they also have a consultation piece you can do too.
I’ll agree with pretty much everyone here. Except to say that we don’t do things that way.
We generally only work with customers who we have enough mutual trust with asthat they are ok with us having access to the hosting, domain, filesystem, database, admin, everything. We want to be able to step in at 3am and rescue them from any problem.
If we have a customer that we don’t have that level of trust with, we hand off all of their assets and credentials and wish them well. I go out of my way to make sure a departing customer is taken care of.
Optimally, you can find a web developer that you can trust enough to delegate this level of responsibilities. They should be your partner, not an adversary.