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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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 →…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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, Ruby, and static sites all work too. PHP We support all PHP

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