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Giving a developer access to your account safely
Don't share your login. Use a service-level password, an FTP account, or a support-approved handoff so access is easy to revoke later. Don't hand a developer your.
When to upgrade your hosting plan
The signs that you have outgrown your hosting plan, where to check resource usage, and how a prorated upgrade works from the portal service page.
Finding your website's IP address
Your server's IP address lives on the Services overview page in the portal. Here's exactly where to find it, and the situations where you'd actually need it.
Hiding your site while you build it
Use Directory Privacy or maintenance mode to keep a site under construction away from visitors and search engines, not a password on the whole account.
Shared vs VPS vs dedicated: which one
Shared hosting fits most sites, VPS fits growth and custom stacks, dedicated fits scale and isolation. Here's how to pick the right one for your workload.
Where the config file lives for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart
Each CMS keeps one config file with your database credentials. Here is the exact filename and path for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, and OpenCart.
Accessing cPanel
Most things you used to do in cPanel are now native pages in our portal — files, email, databases, subdomains, cron, all of them. But cPanel is still there for the things we haven'
Addon domains, aliases, and subdomains
One hosting plan can serve multiple websites. Three different ways to add another domain to the same hosting account, depending on what you want it to do. Addon domain A separate w
Blocking (or welcoming) bots and AI crawlers
How to control which bots and AI crawlers can access your site, using robots.txt and server-level blocks, and when to allow each one.
Can I get a dedicated IP address?
On VPS and dedicated servers , you get a dedicated IP automatically — that's the default. On shared hosting, you share an IP with other accounts on the server, but a dedicated IP i
Changing your hosting account password
The hosting account password (sometimes called the cPanel password) is what FTP, SFTP, and direct SSH connections use to authenticate. Most things in the portal don't need it …
Checking your hosting resource usage
Your hosting plan comes with quotas — disk space, bandwidth, CPU, memory, concurrent processes. The portal shows you where you stand against each limit so you can spot creeping gro
Compressing files on the server
Need to bundle a folder for download, share a multi-file package, or shrink storage? The file manager handles compression and extraction in a few clicks. Compress files into an…
Creating MySQL databases
Most apps you'd run on hosting (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, custom PHP) need a database. Creating one takes a minute. Create a database Go to Services → click your hosting → Databas
DDoS attacks and how Flashcloud protects your site
Cloudflare DNS-layer protection and Imunify360 WAF run on your site by default. Here's what's covered automatically and when to add proxy mode.
Deploying a Laravel app
Laravel is a PHP framework, so it runs on the same stack as any PHP site here. There is no one-click installer for Laravel: you set the PHP version, get your code onto the server,
Deploying a Node.js app
Node.js apps run on shared and WordPress hosting through cPanel's Setup Node.js App. You pick a Node version, tell it where your app lives and how to start it, and cPanel handles t
Deploying a Python app (Flask or Django)
Run Flask or Django on shared hosting via cPanel's Python Selector: create the app, set the WSGI entry point, install requirements.txt.
Deploying with Git
If your site or app lives in a git repository, you can deploy it straight from that repo instead of dragging files around. Flashcloud pulls from the repository you connect and…
File permissions
File permissions control who can read, write, or execute files on your hosting account. Setting them wrong is a common cause of "site won't load" or "uploads fail" issues. The…
Finding what's eating your disk space (and inodes)
A step-by-step way to find what's actually filling your hosting account: cPanel's Disk Usage tool, common suspects, and the safe order to clean things up.
Forcing HTTPS on your site
By default on managed plans, we redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS automatically — visitors hitting http://yourdomain.com are bounced to https://yourdomain.com immediately. If for some
Free site transfer from your old host
If you're switching to Flashcloud from another host, we'll move your site for you — for free. A real human migration team handles it, not a clunky import script. They'll move files
FTP and SFTP accounts
For uploading files to your hosting account directly from a client like FileZilla, Cyberduck, or Transmit, you'll use FTP or SFTP. Both work; SFTP is more secure and we recommend…
Get a free website built for you
If you have hosting with us but no website yet, we'll build you one — for free. It's a real human team, not a templated drag-and-drop tool. You tell us about your business, what yo
How we make your site fast
Site speed is built in, not added on. The default stack on every Flashcloud hosting plan delivers fast pages without you installing plugins, configuring caches, or signing up for a
Importing and exporting large databases
phpMyAdmin caps out on big databases. Use SSH mysqldump or cPanel's Backup Wizard instead, and watch for charset mismatches on import.
Increasing the maximum file upload size
By default, our hosting limits PHP file uploads to 64MB — fine for most uploads, but tight for large media or backup imports. You can raise it from the portal. Where the limit come
Installing Joomla or Drupal
Joomla and Drupal are PHP content management systems. Our one-click installer is for WordPress only, so Joomla and Drupal are a short manual install: download the CMS, create a dat
llms.txt: helping AI assistants understand your website
A plain-text file at your site root that gives AI crawlers a clean summary of your content. Here's what it does and a minimal template to start from.
Monitoring your website's uptime
We monitor our servers 24/7 — if a host or service goes down, our on-call team gets paged immediately. But for monitoring your site specifically (your domain resolves, your homepag
Our backup options
We back up your hosting daily so the worst-case loss is one day of data. Restoring takes a few clicks from the portal. What we back up For shared and WordPress hosting : Daily full
Password-protecting a directory
Sometimes you want a folder on your website to require a username and password before anyone can see it — staging sites, internal docs, work-in-progress pages. HTTP Basic…
PCI DSS and taking online payments
Selling online safely comes down to one idea: don't let raw card numbers touch systems you have to secure yourself. Most stores get there with a payment gateway, plus HTTPS everywh
PHP limits explained: memory_limit, max_execution_time, and friends
What memory_limit, max_execution_time, upload_max_filesize, and post_max_size actually control, plus how to read and raise each one.
phpMyAdmin basics: browsing, editing, import and export
How to browse tables, edit rows safely, and import or export databases in phpMyAdmin, plus the wp_options and wp_users edits our guides reference.
Previewing your site before the DNS switch (hosts-file trick)
Test your site on Flashcloud before DNS points here. Edit your computer's hosts file to preview privately, then flip DNS once you're happy.
Redirecting URLs on your site
URL redirects send visitors from one URL to another. Use them when you've moved pages, changed domain structure, or want short URLs to expand into longer ones. In the portal Go to…
Setting up cron jobs
Cron jobs run scheduled commands on your hosting account — a script every hour, a backup every night, an email queue every five minutes. Set them up from the portal in a couple of
Setting up custom error pages
Custom 404 and error pages on cPanel hosting use the Error Pages tool or an .htaccess ErrorDocument line. WordPress handles its own 404s.
Setting up subdomains
A subdomain is a child of your main domain — blog.yourdomain.com , shop.yourdomain.com , staging.yourdomain.com . Each can serve different content from a different folder on your h
SSL certificates
Every site on Flashcloud gets HTTPS automatically. We auto-issue Let's Encrypt SSL certificates the moment you add a domain to your hosting, and we auto-renew them before expiry. W
Stopping other sites from hotlinking your images
Hotlinking lets other sites load your images and burn your bandwidth. Fix it with cPanel's Hotlink Protection in a few minutes.
The cache stack we ship with every WordPress install
Every WordPress install on Flashcloud comes with a serious caching stack pre-configured. You don't need to install caching plugins, set up Redis, or hire a performance consultant —
Upgrading your hosting plan
If you're outgrowing your current plan — running out of storage, hitting CPU limits, or just want more room to grow — upgrading takes a couple of clicks and a single prorated payme
Uploading files to your hosting
Three ways to get files onto your hosting account. All work; pick whichever fits the tool you're using. Portal File Manager For occasional uploads or quick edits, the portal's…
Using Composer on shared hosting
Composer runs over SSH on shared hosting once you confirm it's installed. Check with composer --version, install per-app, watch memory limits.
Using SSH: keys, connecting, and 15 commands worth knowing
Set up SSH key auth in cPanel, connect from your terminal, and use 15 safe commands for managing files, checking logs, and troubleshooting your hosting.
Viewing your website statistics
You can see basic traffic statistics for your site directly from the portal. For deeper analytics, you'll likely want a tool like Google Analytics or Plausible — but the built-in s
What "managed hosting" means at Flashcloud
You'll see "managed" thrown around a lot in hosting marketing. It often means very different things from one host to the next. Here's exactly what we manage on your behalf so there
What is .htaccess? Common recipes that actually work
A plain-English guide to .htaccess: what it does, where it lives, and copy-paste recipes for redirects, HTTPS, blocking, and custom errors.
What is a WAF? Imunify360 on Flashcloud explained
A WAF filters malicious requests before they hit your site. Here's what Imunify360 blocks on Flashcloud, and how to fix a false-positive 403.
What is caching? Browser, server, and CDN caching explained
Caching stores a copy of data so the next request skips the slow path. Here's how browser, server, and CDN caching fit together on Flashcloud.
What programming languages and runtimes do you support?
Most modern web languages run on our hosting . PHP is the headline since most CMS workloads are PHP, but Node.js, Python, and static sites all work too. PHP We support all PHP vers
Where your website and data are hosted
When you order hosting , you choose which datacenter runs your site. That choice sets where your files, databases, and email physically live, which matters both for speed and for d
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