Your website

  • Create a website
    • Before you start
    • Steps
    • How you know it worked
    • What to do now
    • Common problems
  • Point your domain here
    • Steps
    • Option A: let us handle it (recommended)
    • Option B: stay with your DNS provider
    • Check that it is done
    • How you know it worked
    • How long it takes
    • Common problems
  • Install WordPress
    • Before you start
    • Steps
    • How you know it worked
    • Keeping it up to date
    • Common problems
  • The HTTPS lock of your website
    • Before starting
    • Check how it is
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Redirect an old address to the new one
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Scheduled tasks: that something is executed alone
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • Hours that it is convenient to choose
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Block your website by countries
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Email

  • Create a mailbox
    • Before you start
    • Steps
    • How you know it worked
    • Reading it on your mobile or in Outlook
    • Getting another address’s email in one mailbox
    • Common problems
  • Email on your domain without moving your DNS
    • Before you start
    • Steps
    • Let email apps set themselves up
    • Common problems
  • That your emails arrive and do not fall into spam
    • Before starting
    • See what has happened with an email
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Forwarding, automatic responses and email filters
    • Before starting
    • A forwarding rule
    • An automatic response
    • A filter
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Domains and DNS

  • Buy a domain, renew it or transfer it in
    • Buy one
    • Renew it
    • Transfer it in from another registrar
    • Take it elsewhere
    • Automate it
    • Common problems
  • Your domain’s DNS
    • First of all: is your DNS here?
    • The records you will use
    • Changing something
    • Automating it
    • Common problems
  • Your DNS at another provider: what to add and how to write it there
    • Before you start
    • Steps
    • What you need
    • Optional records
    • What is already in your DNS and gets in the way
    • How to write it at each provider
      • Cloudflare
      • GoDaddy
      • IONOS
      • OVHcloud
      • DonDominio
      • Arsys
      • Namecheap
      • Namecheap (hosting with cPanel)
      • Amazon Route 53
      • Google Cloud DNS or Squarespace Domains
      • Squarespace Domains
      • Hostinger
      • Gandi
      • Porkbun
      • STRATO
      • Raiola Networks (cPanel)
      • Webempresa
      • SiteGround
      • Wix
      • Vercel
      • DigitalOcean
      • Hetzner
      • Azure DNS
      • Name.com
    • Common problems

Files and access

  • Upload your files: FTP, SFTP and the file manager
    • Before starting
    • Upload from the browser
    • Create an FTP account
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Log in to your site via SSH
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

PHP and applications

  • Change your PHP version
    • Steps
    • How you know it worked
    • Which extensions you have
    • Common problems
    • Next step
  • View and edit your PHP settings
    • The four settings you can change
    • Steps
    • How you know it worked
    • Other settings
    • What you can’t change, and why
    • Common problems
  • Install an application with one click
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • If there is already something installed
    • Common problems
  • Publish a Node.js application
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Databases

  • Database and phpMyAdmin
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Managed databases for Projects and VPS
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • Plug it into a project
    • Change the password
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Servers

  • Your VPS: ordering, resizing and deleting it
    • Order one
    • View and manage it
      • Change the name
    • Log in over SSH
    • Upgrade the machine
      • The made-to-measure machine
    • Remove an upgrade
    • Delete the machine
    • Install an application
    • Automate it
    • Common problems
  • Log in to your VPS when SSH does not respond
    • What is the console?
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Expand your VPS: more CPU, more memory, more disk
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • Stop paying for an extension
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • The IP addresses of your VPS
    • What you need to know before touching anything
    • See the addresses
    • Request an additional IP
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Copies and recover

  • Backup copies: what is saved and how to recover it
    • The first thing, because it changes everything
    • Recover something from a site
    • What you can do yourself
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Snapshots and copies of your VPS
    • Before we start: they are not the same
    • Take a snapshot before touching something
    • Go back to the copy of one night
    • Retrieve a single file without restoring anything
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Publish from git

  • Projects: publish from your repository
    • Create your first project
    • The first deployment
    • Your domain
    • Change how it is built
    • Going back
    • Environment variables
    • Common problems

Security of your account

  • Two-step verification
    • Before starting
    • Steps
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Who enters your account: sessions, accesses and blocks by IP
    • Before starting
    • See who has the panel open
    • Review the accesses
    • Automatic locks
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Plans, payments and absences

  • Your plan: what it includes, how you pay and how to change it
    • How much you have used
    • The plans
    • Paying monthly or yearly
    • Change plan
      • Upgrading
      • Downgrading
    • Cancelling
    • Your invoices
    • Automating it
    • Common problems
  • Your invoices, your tax data and the card
    • Before starting
    • Fill in the details
    • Save the card
    • Download an invoice
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Withdraw within 14 days, or cancel your service
    • The difference, in one sentence
    • Withdraw
    • Cancel your service
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Cancel a plan
    • How cancelling works
    • Before you cancel
    • Steps
    • How you know it worked
    • Other messages you may see
    • Changing your mind
    • Withdrawing within the first 14 days
    • If a payment does not go through
    • Frequent problems
  • My service is suspended or turned off
    • The first thing: your data is still where it was
    • Why can it be suspended?
    • What to do
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Support and notices

  • Open a ticket that gets resolved on the first reply
    • Before opening it
    • Steps
    • What happens after?
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems
  • Panel notifications and when we contact you
    • Where are they?
    • Choose what you receive by mail
    • How to check it worked
    • Common problems

Automate

  • The API, for automating your account
    • Two ways in, and they are not for the same job
    • Create your key
    • What your key can do
    • Using it
    • The full list of operations
    • You only see what is yours
    • Limits
    • If you think the key has leaked
    • Invoices, tickets and profile: those still use user and password
    • What is in the user-and-password part
    • Token example: downloading your invoices
    • What you can do depends on your role
    • What is not ready yet
    • Common problems
    • If something is missing, tell us
  • The command line: hostbrid
    • Before you start
    • Getting it onto your machine
    • Log in
    • What you will use most
    • Creating things
    • Delete
    • Inside a script or a pipeline
    • When the command does not exist yet
    • What this program does not do
    • Frequent problems
  • Connect your AI to Hostbrid
    • Before you start
    • Step 1 — Create your key
    • Step 2 — Tell your AI about it
    • Step 3 — Try it out
    • What it can and cannot do
    • Revoke a key
    • Frequent problems
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