Getting started

Step 1 — Check your welcome email

After your payment is confirmed, Hoststack.pro sends a welcome email to the address you used at signup. It contains:

• Your cPanel login URL (e.g. https://yourserver.hoststack.pro:2083)
• Your cPanel username
• A link to set your cPanel password
• Your server's IP address
• Our nameservers (ns1.hoststack.pro / ns2.hoststack.pro)

Can't find the email? Check your spam folder, then log in to your client portal and open a support ticket.

Step 2 — Log in to cPanel

Open the cPanel URL from your welcome email and enter your username and password. You can also access cPanel from your client portal:

1. Log in at client.hoststack.pro
2. Go to Services → My Services
3. Click your hosting plan and choose Login to cPanel

Step 3 — Point your domain

For your website to load, your domain must point to our servers. You have two options:

• Use our nameservers (recommended): Log in to your domain registrar and change the nameservers to ns1.hoststack.pro and ns2.hoststack.pro. DNS propagation takes up to 48 hours.
• Keep your existing DNS (Cloudflare, etc.): Add an A record pointing to your server IP from the welcome email. See the nameservers guide for details.

Step 4 — Add your domain in cPanel

1. In cPanel, open Domains (or Addon Domains on older versions).
2. Enter your domain name and click Add Domain.
3. cPanel creates a document root folder (e.g. public_html/yourdomain.com) where you upload your files.

Step 5 — Upload your website files

You can upload files using:

• File Manager in cPanel — drag and drop in your browser. Good for small changes.
• FTP/SFTP — use FileZilla or any FTP client with the credentials from your welcome email. Best for large uploads. See the FTP guide.
• Git — cPanel supports Git Version Control for code deployment.

Place your files inside the domain's public_html folder. Your homepage file should be named index.php or index.html.

Step 6 — Enable free SSL

Once your domain resolves to our server, issue a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate to enable HTTPS. See the SSL guide for step-by-step instructions. Most plans auto-issue SSL within a few hours of domain propagation.

Step 7 — Set up email (optional)

Create professional email addresses like [email protected] from cPanel's Email Accounts section. See the email setup guide.