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Everything you can do with this panel, in plain words — from your first sign-in to moving a whole server across.
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Signing in, switching and finding your wayThis page covers the three things you do every day: signing in, switching between accounts or roles, and getting around.What you can do yourselfYou have a hosting account with a hosting company. For most things you do not have to call them: your mail, your DNS and your security certificates are yours to run, in the panel, without waiting for anybody.Securing your accountYour hosting account holds your websites, your mail and your data. This page covers what you can set up to protect it, in the order it is worth doing: a passkey, then recovery codes, then the rest.Install on your phoneYou can put the panel on your home screen, like an app from the App Store or Google Play. You get its own icon, it opens without an address bar, and you can receive notifications when something happens to your servers or your account.
Getting started
Signing in, switching and finding your wayThis page covers the three things you do every day: signing in, switching between accounts or roles, and getting around.What you can do yourselfYou have a hosting account with a hosting company. For most things you do not have to call them: your mail, your DNS and your security certificates are yours to run, in the panel, without waiting for anybody.Securing your accountYour hosting account holds your websites, your mail and your data. This page covers what you can set up to protect it, in the order it is worth doing: a passkey, then recovery codes, then the rest.Install on your phoneYou can put the panel on your home screen, like an app from the App Store or Google Play. You get its own icon, it opens without an address bar, and you can receive notifications when something happens to your servers or your account.Finding help and seeing what changedThis documentation lives inside the panel: you never leave for another website, and it works offline on your phone. The same texts are also on a public site, so you can send a link to somebody who does not have an account (yet). This page e
Websites
Installing WordPressFrom an empty domain to a working WordPress site, and then properly under management in the panel. This page is about that first step and about the things you want to arrange straight after it. What you can do with a site once it stands — uYour WordPress sitesThe panel keeps an eye on your WordPress installations: which ones exist, whether they are up to date, and whether any of them has a known security hole.Making a test environmentA test environment — usually called staging — is a complete second copy of your website on an address of its own, where you can break things. Try the new theme, update the plugin you do not trust, rewrite the checkout page. Nobody is lookinSSL and certificatesThe padlock in the address bar. A certificate encrypts the traffic between your visitor and your site, and lets the browser prove it is really talking to your domain. For most people the good news is that there is nothing to do here. This pManaging DNS recordsDNS is the address book of the internet: it tells the rest of the world where
Setting up emailEverything to do with email lives on one page: mailboxes, aliases, forwarders, vacation replies and the button to webmail. This page walks through them one by one.Making sure your email arrivesYou can set a mailbox up perfectly and still land in your customer's spam folder. Not because you did something wrong, but because the receiving side — Gmail, Outlook, a corporate mail server — is asking itself whether your mail is really f
Files, databases and access
Databases and phpMyAdminNearly every website keeps its content in a database: WordPress, a webshop, a forum. This page shows how to create one, who may reach it, and how to look inside.Files, FTP and SSHThere are three ways to reach the files of your account: the file manager in the panel, an FTP client, and SFTP/SSH with a key. This page covers all three and says which one you want when.Your own backupsYour hosting company almost certainly backs up the whole server. Those backups exist for disasters — a broken disk, a lost machine. They are not there to get you out of Tuesday afternoon, when a plugin update wrecked your site. That is whatThe web terminalA terminal in your browser: the same shell you would get over SSH, without installing an SSH client or carrying a key. Useful from a borrowed laptop, and the quickest route to wp-cli, mysqldump, or simply having a look at what is in a log f
Accounts and access
Giving somebody accessYou can let other people look at, or work in, your account without sharing your password. You invite them at their own email address, choose what they may do, and change or withdraw that later.Running your own hosting brandAs a reseller you sell hosting under your own name. Your customers see your address, your logo and your colour — never CoreCP, and never each other. This page covers what you set up yourself and where the boundary is.
Platform and servers
Adding a serverFrom a bare Ubuntu server to a working role node in one command. You say in the panel what the machine is for, copy one line, paste it on the server, and watch.Where a website is servedA CoreCP website does not live on "a server". It has five services — its web server, its database, its mail store, its nameservers and its backup target — and each of them is placed on a machine independently. Most of the time all five landManaging releasesA new version of PHP, of the agent, or of the panel itself does not go to every server at once. It walks: a soak on the beta channel, then a canary machine, then the fleet in waves, with a wait between each pair and a health check that can Assigning servers to rollout wavesA new version never reaches every server at once. It walks in waves: a canary first, then wave 1, then the rest, with a wait and a health check between each pair. Which server is in which wave is your decision.Connecting a second panelA second brand is a second CoreCP installation. It runs the same software and installs the same packages from the same source — and shares nothing else. Its own database, its own customers, its own keys, its own certificate authority, its oThe assistant and connecting your own AIThe panel can talk to an AI in two ways: a chat inside the panel running on your own API key, and a connection that lets your own AI client (Claude, ChatGPT) work with the panel directly. This page explains how to set both up and — more impUsing the test setThis platform carries a complete, real test set: one reseller with a panel address of their own, three websites on three registered domains, a WordPress under toolkit management, mailboxes that really send and really receive, DNS zones, FTP
Migrating
Migrating from cPanelcPanel is the biggest source of migrations there is, so CoreCP reads its archives directly — the same cpmove archive pkgacct writes, and the full account backup a customer can make from their own cPanel without asking anybody.Running a live migrationMoving a customer off a running server onto CoreCP without the site being down for hours. This is the guided version: one wizard that puts the steps in the order somebody actually does them, may run for days, and survives you closing the la