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How to do the things you will need to do

Written for the person doing it, not for the person who wrote the software.

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Getting started

Your first hour with a new hosting account.

  • Move an existing site across

    Migrations are included and we would rather do them than have you do them. The control panel address and a login for the site you are leaving, or a full ba…

  • Point your domain at your hosting

    Your hosting account is ready before your domain knows about it. Two records connect them. Nothing to do. The nameservers are set when the account is built…

  • Upload your first site

    There are three ways to get files onto the account, and none of them is better than the others. Sign in to the control panel, open File Manager, and drop t…

Domains and DNS

Registering, transferring and pointing names.

  • Add a DNS record

    DNS records are edited from the control panel, under Domains. The TTL is how long other servers are allowed to remember the answer. Lower it to 300 seconds…

  • Transfer a domain in

    A transfer moves who the name is registered through. The site and the mail carry on working throughout. The domain has to be unlocked at the current regist…

  • What happens when a domain expires

    Expiry is not deletion. There are three stages and you can recover a name in the first two. For about thirty days after expiry the name can be renewed at t…

Email

Mailboxes, clients and deliverability.

  • Forward mail to another address

    A forwarder sends a copy of everything for one address on to another, without needing a mailbox. Under Email, choose Forwarders, give the address to forwar…

  • Set up a mailbox

    Mailboxes are created in the control panel under Email Accounts. Use the mail host shown on the account overview, IMAP on port 993 and SMTP on port 465, bo…

  • Stop your mail going to spam

    Three DNS records decide whether your mail is trusted. All three are set for you when mail is hosted here. Lists the servers allowed to send for your domai…

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Tell us what you run now and we will say plainly whether moving it is worth the trouble.