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Getting Started

Your first 30 minutes with ApaxonHost

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Everything below takes about half an hour. Do it in order and you'll finish with a working site on your own domain, secured with SSL.

1. Sign in to the client area

Your welcome email has your client area password. Sign in at /client. This is where your invoices, services, domains and support tickets live.

The first thing worth doing is turning on two-factor authentication under Profile — your hosting account controls your website and your email, so it's worth the extra thirty seconds at login.

2. Find your Plesk login

Plesk is the control panel where you manage files, databases and mailboxes. From the client area, open Services, click your hosting plan, and use the Log in to Plesk button. That signs you in without a separate password.

3. Point your domain at us

If you bought the domain from us, this is already done — skip to step 4.

If your domain is registered elsewhere, log in to that registrar and set the nameservers to:

ns1.apaxonhost.com
ns2.apaxonhost.com

DNS changes propagate within a few hours, though registries quote up to

  1. See How to change your nameservers for the

per-registrar detail.

4. Upload your site

Three ways, pick one:

  • WordPress — Plesk's WordPress Toolkit installs it in about a

minute, with sensible security defaults already applied.

  • Existing site — upload to httpdocs over SFTP, or use Plesk's

File Manager for a zip.

  • Migrating from another host — open a ticket. Migration is free, we

do it out of hours, and we test before switching anything over.

5. Turn on SSL

Every plan includes a free Let's Encrypt certificate. In Plesk, open SSL/TLS Certificates → Install a free basic certificate, tick the domain and the www alias, and issue it. Renewal is automatic.

Then tick Redirect from http to https so visitors always land on the secure version.

6. Check it

Load your domain in a private browsing window. You should see your site, a padlock in the address bar, and no mixed-content warnings.

If something's off, open a ticket with the domain name and what you're seeing — that's usually enough for us to spot it without any back and forth.

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