Web Hosting

Learn how the hosting panel is organised into account level and website level, what each tab does and where to find common settings.

Open your mailbox in a browser, log in with the right credentials, get around the interface and fix common webmail problems.

Add a second website, an extra address for an existing site, or a redirect, then point the domain to your hosting and check that it works.

Change PHP memory, upload size, execution time and input limits per site from the hosting panel, with sensible values and fixes for settings that don't apply.

See your automatic backups, take a manual copy before risky changes, and restore a full website, mailboxes or just a single file.

Switch the PHP version your website runs on from the hosting panel, check that everything still works, and roll back if something breaks.

See how much disk space, how many websites, mailboxes and databases you're using, find what's taking up space, and free some up before you hit a limit.

Set up an SSH key, enable SSH access in the hosting panel and connect to your site from a terminal, with fixes for common connection errors.

Create a MySQL database and user in the hosting panel, find the connection details your application needs and fix common connection errors.

Create a subdomain like blog.yourcompany.com, decide whether it should be part of your existing site or its own, and fix DNS and certificate problems.

Create a mailbox like [email protected] from your hosting panel, set a password and quota, and fix common problems with delivery, limits and spam.

Learn how to add your first website to your hosting panel, what to do next, and how to fix common problems like domain-in-use errors and missing SSL.