Web Hosting

Knowledge Base

Getting started

How to get started with your web hosting plan
Getting started with a Cloud Web hosting plan
View and manage all your websites from the OVHcloud Control Panel
How to create a website - Carrying out your project in 5 steps
Web Hosting FAQ
Publishing a website on your Web Hosting plan
Web Hosting - Activating email addresses included
Responsibility sharing for the Web Hosting service
Web hosting - How to know your cluster and filer
How to find the name of your web hosting offer

Configuration

Hosting multiple websites on your Web Hosting plan
Configuring and using Git with an OVHcloud web hosting plan
Web Hosting - How to modify a domain name already associated to a hosting plan
Web Hosting - Environment, PHP version, .ovhconfig
Configuring IPv6 for your website
Managing Cloud Web runtime software applications
Retrieving the backup of the FTP space on your Cloud Web hosting plan
Web Hosting - How to change your solution
Speeding up your website with CDN
Web hosting - View website statistics and logs
Web Hosting - View CDN statistics and logs
How do I geolocate a website in a specific country?
Optimise your website’s performance
Using automated tasks on a Web Hosting plan
How to create and manage a web application using the OVHcloud public API
Creating a database on your web hosting plan
Changing the password for a Web Hosting plan’s database
Duplicating the contents of one database to another
Retrieving the backup of a Web Hosting plan’s database
How to recover a deleted database backup
How to identify your database server
Web Hosting - How to use FileZilla
Web hosting - How to manage FTP users
Logging in to your web hosting plan’s FTP storage space
Web hosting - How to enable SFTP access
Changing an FTP user password
Managing your web hosting plan with Visual Studio Code via SFTP
Tutorial - Using Cyberduck with a web hosting plan
Restoring your Web Hosting plan’s storage space
Web Hosting - How to use SSH access
How to use PuTTY for SSH connections and authentication
Using SVN
Web Hosting - Copy files using SCP command
Setting up your website with a 1-click module (CMS)
How to change the admin password of a CMS
How to manage your 1-click module

Migration

How to migrate a website from a web hosting plan to a VPS
Importing a backup into a Web Hosting plan database
Exporting a website
Migrating your website and associated services to OVHcloud
Migrating your Xara website to OVHcloud
Migrating your WordPress website to OVHcloud

Tutorials

Use cases - How to change the domain of an existing website
Tutorial - Installation and configuration of Cecil, a static site generator (SSG) in PHP
Tutorial - Add dynamic content to a static web page generated with Cecil
Installing Composer on a Web Hosting plan
Tutorial - Getting started with WordPress
Tutorial - Backing up your WordPress website
Tutorial - Using the htaccess file with WordPress
Tutorial - Using WooCommerce with WordPress
Managing multiple WordPress websites with the MainWP plugin
Backing up your WordPress websites with MainWP
Improving your website's security with the MainWP plugin for WordPress
Managing customer information on your WordPress websites with MainWP
Installing Ghost on a Cloud Web hosting plan
Tutorial - Protect a directory or administration interface of your website with .htaccess and .htpasswd files
Tutorial - Rewrite the URL for accessing your website using mod_rewrite via the .htaccess file
Tutorial - How do I block access to my website for certain IP addresses via a .htaccess file?
What else can you do with the .htaccess file?
Tutorial - Installing a CMS manually on your Web Hosting plan
Tutorial - Installing WordPress manually
Tutorial - Installing Joomla! manually
Tutorial - Installing Pico manually
Tutorial - Installing PrestaShop manually
Tutorial - Installing Drupal manually
Tutorial - Installing Grav manually
Tutorial - Installing Typo3 manually
Tutorial - Installing SPIP manually

Security

How to secure your website?
Activating the application firewall
Web Hosting - How to configure an SSL certificate
Web Hosting - Switching your website to HTTPS
Web Hosting - How to activate a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate
Web Hosting - Activate a Sectigo DV SSL certificate
Web Hosting - How to activate a Sectigo EV SSL certificate
Web Hosting - How to install a custom SSL certificate
Common errors related to securing your website with SSL

Troubleshooting

Use cases - What to do if your Website is hacked
How to mitigate the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability
What do I do if my website is down?
My website is slow. What to do?
Troubleshooting common 1-click module errors
What to do if you get a "Your connection is not private" error?
Troubleshooting common database errors
Resolving a “Site not installed” error
Fixing the 500 Internal Server Error
Troubleshooting an "Index of" page
What do I do if I have a 403 forbidden page?
What should I do if the page “Your IP has been banned” appears?
What should I do if the page “Your request has been blocked” appears?
Monitoring and managing automated emails in your web hosting plan
How to react to abnormal activity detected on your web hosting
Web hosting - My database is full, what should I do?
Troubleshooting recurring errors when using FTP software

Additional resources

Web Hosting - List of IP addresses by cluster
Technical specifications of Web Hostings
Web Hosting - Available language versions
Web Hosting Reversibility Policy
SQL Database EOS and EOL announcements
Migrating MySQL to Percona Server for MySQL