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Updated: April 29, 2026
Matic Bončina
By Matic BončinaFounder
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Like what you see?Tired of your old host?Switch to Noxity. 60 days, no card on file.Try free → Your welcome email has a cPanel URL, a username, and a temporary password. From there it’s a short walk to a live, backed-up site. This page goes through the order most people work in. No hosting plan yet? The pricing page on noxity.io lists what’s included at each tier. If the welcome email never arrived, jump to No email received?.

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The first ten minutes

1

Log into cPanel

Open the cPanel URL from the welcome email. For shared plans this is usually https://cpanel.noxity.io:2083; VPS and container plans get a per-server URL. Sign in with the username and temporary password from the email.First thing once inside: change the password. Top-right corner, your name, Password & Security, set something you’ll remember. We treat the temporary password as one-time-use.
2

Point your domain at the account

If the domain is registered with Noxity, open the domain panel and set nameservers to In-house DNS (the cPanel pair: ns1.noxity.io and ns2.noxity.io). The change saves at the registry within seconds; resolvers pick it up over the next hour.If the domain is registered elsewhere, log into that registrar and change the nameservers there to the same Noxity pair. To keep DNS at the existing host instead, point an A record at the IP from your welcome email. Both shapes are covered on external DNS.A temporary <account>.servernoxity.io URL ships in the welcome email so you can test before DNS propagates.
3

Set up email

cPanel’s Email Accounts tool creates you@yourdomain.com in two clicks. Pick the username, set a password, click Create. To connect from Apple Mail, Outlook, or any IMAP client, hit Connect Devices on the account; the connection details fill in for you.Forwarders (info@yourdomain redirects to some Gmail address) live under Forwarders in the same section. Catch-all addresses sit under Default Address. Full walkthrough on Email accounts.
4

Install your site (or upload it)

For a fresh WordPress install, open WP Toolkit, click Install, pick the domain, set the admin login. Five clicks; PHP version, database, and SSL configure themselves. Detailed walkthrough on WordPress installations.To upload an existing site, use File Manager (browser), FTP (port 21), or SSH/SFTP (Power plans, port 22). Files go into public_html/ for the primary domain, or public_html/subdomain/ for sub- and add-on domains.For other CMS or framework installs (Drupal, Joomla, Magento, custom Laravel, Node.js), see the Application Hosting section.
5

Confirm SSL is live

Let’s Encrypt issues a certificate automatically once the domain resolves to the account. Open https://yourdomain.com in a browser; you should see the padlock without warnings. If not, SSL/TLS Status in cPanel shows what’s missing. The usual culprit is a DNS record that hasn’t propagated yet, or an HTTP-01 validation that needs the domain reachable. Walk-through on SSL/TLS overview.
Behind Cloudflare or another proxy, the validation route changes. See SSL/TLS settings for the proxy-friendly setup.
6

Confirm backups are running

JetBackup runs nightly off-server backups by default. Nothing to enable. Open JetBackup 5 in cPanel and the Home screen shows the last successful backup date and the retention window. Take a fresh manual snapshot once the site is set up so your rollback target is your “good” state, not whatever was on day one.Restoring from a backup is one click. Full walk-through on JetBackup.

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After the first ten minutes

The basics are done. Common next steps:

Add another domain

Add-on, parked, and sub-domains all configure the same way under Domains in cPanel.

Set up a database

MySQL / MariaDB databases via the Databases section. WordPress and Drupal already created theirs in step 4.

Tune performance

AccelerateWP for WordPress sites: caching, optimisation, the works. LSCache plus Redis on the LiteSpeed side covers the rest.

Lock the account down

Imunify360, IP blocker, Mod Security, two-factor on cPanel itself. Skim the Security Settings section once.

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Common questions

The <account>.servernoxity.io URL stays valid as long as your account exists, but it’s intended for testing while DNS propagates. Don’t link to it from public content. It doesn’t pass SEO well, and we reserve the right to retire individual servers’ temp domains during infrastructure changes.
Sure. Download via your old host’s File Manager or FTP, upload to ours. For WordPress sites, plugins like All-in-One WP Migration produce a single-file export you can re-import here. For larger sites or anything with a database, the migration team handles cPanel-to-cPanel for free.
DNS hasn’t propagated yet, or the nameservers at the registry haven’t updated. Confirm at the registry what nameservers your domain currently points at. If they’re not the Noxity ones (or the IP isn’t ours), the change either hasn’t been made or hasn’t been picked up yet. Resolvers cache DNS for the length of the previous record’s TTL, often up to 24 hours.
cPanel ships several themes; we run the default Jupiter theme. If you see a different one, your hoster previously set it. Your Members Area account profile lets you switch back, but the underlying tools work the same way regardless.

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Need a hand?

Open a ticket

Best for anything that needs an account check or a config change on our end.

Live chat

Faster for quick questions during business hours.
These guides were ported from our legacy knowledgebase by AI, then reviewed and extensively tested by humans before publication to ensure the migration went through smoothly.