Guides
Watch it, read it, then install it.
Four short video guides and the tour, the six documentation pages to read first, and the newest posts from the blog.
Video guides
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Move a site in from another server
From cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk or any Linux server, with the old one still serving.
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WordPress: an update policy and staging
Decide once what updates on its own, check health, and stage on a real second site.
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Mail and an auto-reply
Mailboxes, forwarders, the DNS checks that decide delivery, and an auto-reply with dates.
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Cloudflare from the panel
The proxy, the SSL mode and the cache for a site, with the breaking combinations refused.
The short guides are recorded from the real panel running demo data. Every name in them is invented.
Start here
- InstallOne command on a clean Ubuntu 24.04 server.
- QuickstartFrom a new server to a first site with HTTPS.
- MigrationBring sites in from cPanel, DirectAdmin or any server over SSH.
- WordPress stagingA real second site, and a push that backs up first.
- MailMailboxes, forwarders, DKIM and webmail.
- DNSCloudflare, or this server as the nameserver.
Latest from the blog
- How to move from cPanel to a new server without downtime Copy the site while the old server keeps serving, check the copy before DNS moves, then cut over. The four steps and the commands for each.
- cPanel alternatives in 2026: what to check before you switch Seven questions to ask of any hosting control panel before you leave cPanel: licence, web server, mail, migration, privilege, updates and the way back.
- Error 525 and 526 behind Cloudflare: what they mean and how to fix them Both errors mean Cloudflare reached your server and could not trust its HTTPS. How to tell which one you have and fix it at the origin.
- Cloudflare 522: when the site is fine and the DNS record is wrong A 522 means Cloudflare could not connect to the address in your DNS record. Often the server is healthy and the record points somewhere else.
- ionCube Loader on Ubuntu 24.04 with PHP 8.1 to 8.5 Install the ionCube Loader for PHP-FPM on Ubuntu 24.04, load it before OPcache, and check it worked. Plus why there is no loader for PHP 8.0.