Documentation
Everything you need to install Nimbopanel, migrate from cPanel, and run your hosting.
Getting started
Guides
- Hosting account guide Every tool in your panel, where it is, and what it does — domains, email, databases, files, apps, security and metrics.
- Reseller guide Run your own hosting brand on someone else's server — customer accounts, your allocation, your branding, and your own panel address and nameservers.
- .htaccess — the two modes, and which one you want A rule in your .htaccess isn't doing anything. Here's why, what the two modes mean, how to switch, and what switching costs.
- Publish from a folder other than public_html Laravel, Symfony and similar frameworks keep index.php in public/ so that .env stays out of reach. Here's how to point a domain at that folder, and what the panel refuses to publish.
- One database user for several databases Give an existing database user access to another database, and take it away again, without a second username and a second password.
Operator setup
- Point your domain (DNS) — one step, then it's automatic The ONE thing you must do at your domain registrar, once. After that Nimbopanel manages every DNS record for you — no Cloudflare or other DNS host needed.
- Email deliverability & sending Receiving email works out of the box; sending needs one extra step on most VPS providers. Here's why, and how to set up a relay so mail actually gets delivered.
- Registrar guide — creating ns1/ns2 (the one-time step) Click-by-click for the popular registrars (Indonesian first) to create your own nameservers ns1/ns2 and point your domain at them. After this, Nimbopanel manages every DNS record itself.
- VPS provider notes What to check on your specific VPS provider — cloud firewall ports, the outbound-port-25 policy, and reverse DNS.
- Troubleshooting Common symptoms when setting up a server, what causes them, and how to fix each one.
- Payments setup — and the one step that silently loses money Credentials go in .env, but one gateway also needs a URL pasted into its own dashboard by hand. Skip it and buyers pay while their licence never arrives. How to set it up, and how to prove it works.
- Move an account off the old server without downloading it Pull a cPanel account straight from the old server over SSH — no gigabytes through your laptop. What it needs, what it does on the source, and why it asks you to look at a fingerprint first.
- Cloud-init and machine images Provision a server with no SSH session, or build a reusable image — and the one mistake that makes every server built from an image the same server.
- Marketing website — sell hosting from your own domain A ready-made marketing site with your brand, plans and checkout — served on the panel or published to your own apex domain, with a signal when the live site falls out of date.