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Answers without the runaround.
Organised guides for getting started, caring for a website, choosing a service, and comparing your options.
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Getting started
Welcome to HostRight
Understand what HostRight provides, which applications you can host, and where HostRight's responsibility ends and yours begins
Your first 15 minutes with HostRight
Set up your HostRight account, connect a domain, publish a basic website, and enable HTTPS.
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Domains
Connect a domain to your service
A straightforward guide to pointing a domain at your website or application.
Manage an external domain with external nameservers
Point a domain managed outside HostRight to your hosting account while keeping DNS and email records at your DNS provider.
Use Cloudflare SSL and CDN with HostRight
Provision Cloudflare edge and origin certificates, install the origin certificate in HostRight, and safely enable Cloudflare proxying.
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Hosting tools
How to back up and restore your website
Learn how HostRight backups work, how to use JetBackup, how to create custom cron backups, and how to restore or download a backup.
Use SSH and the chrooted terminal
Set up SSH keys, use the HostRight chrooted terminal, and connect securely to your hosting account over SSH.
Run scheduled tasks with Cron Jobs
Create safe scheduled commands for PHP, Laravel, Symfony, backups, reports, imports, and application maintenance in HostRight Control Panel.
Deploy files with SFTP
Configure SSH keys and use SFTP to upload, download, and manage website files securely on your HostRight hosting account.
Create and manage a MySQL-compatible database
Create a database and user, connect with phpMyAdmin, check server details, and import or export database backups from the HostRight Control Panel.
Set up email accounts and webmail
Create a HostRight mailbox, save its mail client settings, and access email through webmail or IMAP and SMTP.
Create email forwarders
Forward mail from a HostRight address to one or more destinations without creating another mailbox.
Set up email autoresponders
Create automatic replies for holidays, support acknowledgements, office hours, and other mailbox response workflows.
Create and manage mailing lists
Create a HostRight mailing list, add subscribers, and use list delivery for announcements, teams, and community communication.
Deploy website files with FTP
Create an FTP account, choose its directory access, save the credentials, and use FTP to upload website files to HostRight.
Enable and use Redis
Enable Redis for a HostRight account, find the Unix socket path, and configure an application to use Redis safely.
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Application hosting
Applications you can host
An introduction to the popular websites and web applications you can run with HostRight.
Host PHP Applications with PHP, Databases, Redis, and Cron Jobs
Deploy custom PHP applications and frameworks with PHP version selection, extensions, Composer, MariaDB, Redis, SSL, Git, SSH, and scheduled tasks.
Deploy Node.js applications with HostRight Control Panel
Create, configure and run production Node.js applications on HostRight with the managed Node.js application interface.
Deploy Python applications with HostRight Control Panel and Passenger
Deploy Django, Flask, Pyramid, Bottle, and other WSGI Python applications on HostRight with HostRight Control Panel, Phusion Passenger, SSH, SFTP, FTP, and Git.
One-click apps
Choose a popular open-source application and get started with a guided installation.
Static hosting for React, Vue, Next.js, Nuxt, Svelte, and Astro
Build a frontend locally, upload the generated static files to HostRight, configure SPA routes, connect a domain, and enable SSL.
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Comparisons
Hosting comparisons by real application workload
Compare HostRight with Hostinger, Railway, Render, Heroku, Fly.io, and WordPress.com by total stack cost, databases, Redis, cron jobs, email, SSL, and operations.
HostRight vs Hostinger for WordPress and small websites
Compare HostRight and Hostinger pricing, WordPress, databases, Redis, email, SSL, backups, CDN, and the real cost of running a small website.
HostRight vs Railway for Django, Flask, and Node.js
Compare bundled hosting and usage-based Railway infrastructure for Django, Flask, Node.js, databases, Redis, cron jobs, email, SSL, and backups.
HostRight vs Render for production web applications
Compare HostRight's bundled hosting with Render web services, workers, Postgres, Key Value, cron jobs, storage, and usage costs.
HostRight vs Heroku for small PHP, Django, and Flask apps
Compare Heroku dynos, Postgres, Key-Value Redis, cron work, SSL, email, backups, and total application cost with HostRight shared hosting.
HostRight vs Fly.io for Next.js and full-stack applications
Compare Fly.io Machines and usage pricing with HostRight for Next.js, Node.js, databases, Redis, cron jobs, SSL, backups, and operations.
HostRight vs WordPress.com for WordPress ownership and flexibility
Compare WordPress.com and HostRight pricing, plugins, database access, Redis, email, cron jobs, backups, SSL, storage, and application flexibility.