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Customer guide

For account owners and the people they invite: what you can do with your hosting account, and where to find it.

Finding your way

Home lists everything your account may open, in categories such as Websites & domains, Files & access, Databases & storage and Email. Type in the search box (press /) to find a tool by the word you use, and pin the ones you use daily so they come first. Ctrl K (Cmd K on a Mac) opens the command palette, and Ctrl J opens the assistant, which can explain an error or a log line and propose a change you approve. The assistant works only if your host has set up a model. When it has, a guide helps you from your first screen: it asks what you want to do first, such as putting your website online, and walks you through it in plain words, one step at a time. Without AI the same steps stay as a checklist.

Your security

Your Security page has your passkeys, authenticator app, recovery codes, signed-in devices, API tokens and password. Add a passkey on each device you use; end any device you do not recognise and it is signed out within seconds. API tokens are shown once, can be limited in scope, and can be revoked at any time. On your own computer you can keep the browser signed in and come back with a short PIN, if your host allows it. Remove it any time from the Trusted browsers tab.

Domains and websites

  • Add a domain, subdomain, alias or parked domain. Depending on your plan, a DNS zone, a website and a certificate follow automatically.
  • Sites are static, PHP or a reverse proxy to an app. Each PHP version runs as your own Linux user, separate from other accounts.
  • Change PHP settings and add nginx snippets within the allowed list; anything refused comes back with its line number. A change that breaks the site is rolled back automatically.
  • HTTPS is automatic. You can also upload your own certificate.

Mail

  • Mailboxes with quotas, aliases, forwarders, a catch-all and autoresponders.
  • Webmail has conversations, search across folders, scheduled send, snooze, a calendar and contacts. Create an app password for a phone's mail, calendar and contacts apps.
  • DKIM, SPF, DMARC and autoconfig records are published for you when your DNS is hosted here.
  • Mail apps connect over IMAP (993) and submission (587 or 465). You can only send as the mailbox you signed in with.

Databases

  • MariaDB or MySQL and PostgreSQL databases with users at read-only, read-write or admin level.
  • Passwords are generated and shown once. Remote access is off until you add an address, and then requires TLS.
  • Export a database to a .sql.gz file in your home and import one back.
  • A Valkey instance of your own, if your plan includes one.

Files, SSH and the terminal

  • Browse, upload (resumable), edit, move, archive and extract files. Everything runs as your own Linux user.
  • Share a file with a link, keep earlier versions of a file, and create FTP(S) users (TLS required, limited to their folder). WebDAV answers at /dav/.
  • Add SSH keys, with optional limits on where they can connect from, what they can run and when they expire.
  • Choose SSH off, SFTP only, or a shell, where your plan allows it.
  • Open a terminal in the browser. It is a real shell as your user; it closes after 30 minutes idle.

Containers

Deploy Docker Compose stacks or install an app from the catalogue (WordPress, Ghost, n8n, Uptime Kuma, Gitea, Nextcloud, Plausible, Metabase, SeaweedFS, Valkey). Compose options that would reach outside your account are refused with the line that caused it. Upgrades take a snapshot first and roll back on failure.

Backups and storage

  • Back up your files and databases to local storage, the server's S3 store or your own S3, B2, R2, SFTP or WebDAV storage.
  • Restore single files, a database or the whole account. A whole-account restore can be rolled back for 24 hours.
  • Create S3 buckets and access keys and use them from your own code with any S3 SDK.

Team: sub-users

Under Team, invite a developer, designer or client and give them only what they need: one site, one folder, one mailbox, for as long as you set. Their Home shows only what you shared. Folder grants are enforced by the server, not only by the panel, so a sub-user cannot follow a link out of the folder they were given.

On your phone

The panel works in a phone browser. A mobile app exists for early-access installs; it is not in the app stores yet. Your signed-in devices are listed on your Security page.

See also: all features and the API.