Hostwinds purchase tutorial: novice users register an account and complete the purchase with Alipay

Hostwinds is an American host business, selling virtual hosts, VPS, cloud servers, independent servers, etc. The computer rooms include Seattle, Dallas, Amsterdam, etc. Old Tang recommended that you choose the Seattle machine room, which is the fastest in mainland China. The Hostwinds website has only an English interface at present, so Lao Tang has compiled a simple purchase tutorial here for your reference. Hostwinds supports Alipay purchase and is very convenient.

This is a series of Hostwinds tutorials. You can refer to the Hostwinds website building tutorial:

1. 《 Hostwinds website building tutorial: One click installation of LNMP website building environment, deployment of PHP+MySQL 》
2. 《 Hostwinds website building tutorial: resolve domain name and add website configuration to establish WordPress website 》
3. 《 Hostwinds website building tutorial: WordPress website setting, selecting appropriate theme, installing necessary plug-ins 》

1、 Enter the Hostwinds official website to select the appropriate scheme

Official website address: www.hostwinds.com

After entering the Hostwinds official website, select the corresponding scheme as shown in the figure.

Or choose the scheme sorted out by Lao Tang from the table below, which is clearer.

Linux solution:

Windows scheme:

2、 Register Hostwinds account and purchase

After selecting the corresponding scheme, click the corresponding purchase link to purchase, and you can see the following account registration page. Enter the required information to register an account.

Then you can see the purchase configuration page. First, you need to add some account information, as shown in the figure, mainly including phone number, address, country, province and other information. Please select China as the country.

If you continue to look down, you will see some configuration information. Generally speaking, we can select the default.

• Both trusteeship type and non trusteeship type are acceptable. Generally, trusteeship type is acceptable. After all, it is not expensive.
• The payment period is determined according to your own needs. Note that the 53% discount is a one-time discount. Therefore, if it is used for a long time, it is recommended to choose a longer payment period. Of course, you can buy a new one every month.
• The machine room recommends Seattle, which is faster in mainland China.
• The operating system can be selected according to your preference.
• The number of IP addresses will increase according to the demand.
• DDoS IP address and Class C IP address are generally not available for us to choose.
• The configuration can be adjusted again to determine the purchase quantity.

After selecting these, continue to look at additional options. Generally speaking, we do not need any additional options, as shown in the following figure.

Then we can choose Alipay for payment.

3、 Complete payment and start using Hostwinds VPS

After selecting Alipay according to the above steps, there will be some confirmation pages. Basically, we can confirm according to the operation, then we will jump to the payment page of Alipay, scan the code or log in to the Alipay account to complete the payment.

Then we can go to the following address to manage our purchased VPS products:

https://clients.hostwinds.com/clientarea.php?action=services

As shown in the figure:

In addition, after payment, an Alipay automatic deduction agreement will be opened by default. If we don't need it, we can go to the following address to cancel it:

https://clients.hostwinds.com/ManageAlipay.php

Or enter from the following address:

Then we can happily use Hostwinds VPS to start building a website. Some references in this article《 Hostwinds purchase tutorial: new user registration account, Alipay payment tutorial 》。