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Tutorials & Knowledgebase

Straightforward guides for managing your hosting, domains, email and customer account.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Deploying a Website from GitHub

Deploy a website from GitHub in your hosting control panel: connect your account, deploy to production or staging, auto deploy on push and check logs.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Running Applications with Worker Processes

Run Node.js, Laravel, PHP and custom applications with Worker Processes in your hosting control panel: setup, logs and resource limits.

🌐 Domains & DNS Beginner

Pointing a Domain to Your Go Red Robot Hosting

How to point your domain at your Go Red Robot hosting: nameservers versus DNS records, propagation time, and what to check first.

📧 Email Beginner

Creating and Managing Email Accounts

Create and manage email accounts in your hosting control panel: mailboxes, webmail, email apps, passwords and the Junk folder.

🗄️ Databases Intermediate

Creating a MySQL Database and Accessing phpMyAdmin

Create a MySQL database and database user in your hosting control panel, open phpMyAdmin, and use Remote MySQL safely.

💻 VPS & Servers Beginner

Getting Started with Your Managed VPS

Getting started with your Go Red Robot Managed VPS: the build, timescales, requesting changes, backups, monitoring and urgent support.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Adding a New Customer

Add a customer to your Enhance reseller panel, give them a login and put them on a hosting package, all from one form.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Moving a Website to Another Customer

Transfer a website, including its files, databases and email accounts, from one customer to another in your Enhance reseller panel.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Logging In as Your Customer

Use Impersonate to see your customer's panel exactly as they do, and make changes for them without needing their password.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Resetting a Customer's Password

Set a new login password for one of your customers in the Enhance panel, plus what to do about email address changes and 2FA lockouts.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Suspending or Removing a Customer

Take a customer's websites and email offline for unpaid invoices or abuse, bring them back, or remove the account altogether.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Creating a Hosting Package

Build your own hosting packages in the Enhance reseller panel, choosing disk space, websites, email, backups and features, then copy or edit them late...

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Putting a Customer on a Package

Subscribe an existing customer to a hosting package, or add a second package to their account, in the Enhance reseller panel.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Upgrading or Downgrading a Customer's Package

Move a customer to a bigger or smaller hosting package in the Enhance panel without touching their websites or email.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Moving a Website Between a Customer's Packages

Move a website from one of your customer's packages to another. There's no single button yet, but two quick transfers get it done.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Adding a Website for a Customer

Create a new website inside your customer's account, from a blank space, a one-click app, or a copy of an existing site.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Adding Extra Domains and Changing the Main Domain

Add addon domains, subdomains and aliases to a website in the Enhance panel, and change which domain is the main one.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Creating Email Accounts and Forwarders

Set up mailboxes, forwarders and catch-all addresses for a website in the Enhance panel, and find webmail.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Taking and Restoring Backups

Take a manual backup before making changes, then restore a whole website or just the files you need from the Enhance panel.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Advanced

Setting Your Panel Address and Nameservers

Give your customers a branded control panel address, set phpMyAdmin and staging domains, and add your own nameservers in Enhance.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Branding the Panel with Your Logo and Colours

Put your own name, logo, colours and support links on the control panel your customers see, from Settings, Branding in Enhance.

⚙️ Enhance Panel Beginner

Adding Team Members

Invite staff, support agents or a freelance designer to your Enhance reseller panel, with only the access they need.

🎯 Getting Started Beginner

Understanding Open Graph (OG) Tags and How to Set Them Up

A complete guide to Open Graph (OG) meta tags - what they are, why they matter for social sharing, and step-by-step instructions for adding them to yo...

⚙️ Enhance Panel Intermediate

Using Staging Websites for Safe Testing

Learn how to create and use staging websites in the Enhance control panel to safely test changes before deploying them to your live production site.

💳 Billing & Payments Beginner

How to Purchase and Use Account Credit

Learn how to purchase and use account credit at Go Red Robot Hosting. Add credit to your account for faster invoice payments with automatic applicatio...

🎯 Getting Started Beginner

Getting Started with Your Customer Portal

Learn how to navigate and use your customer portal dashboard to manage all your hosting services, invoices, and domains.

👤 Customer Portal Beginner

Understanding Your Dashboard

Learn what all the information on your customer portal dashboard means and how to use it effectively.

👤 Customer Portal Beginner

Managing Your Services

Learn how to view, manage, and understand your hosting services including VPS servers, shared hosting, and more.

💳 Billing & Payments Beginner

Viewing and Paying Invoices

Learn how to view, understand, and pay your invoices through the customer portal with step-by-step instructions.

💳 Billing & Payments Beginner

Adding and Managing Payment Methods

Learn how to add, update, and manage your payment methods for faster and more convenient invoice payments.

🌐 Domain Management Intermediate

Managing Your Domains

Learn how to manage your domains, update nameservers, request EPP codes, and understand domain statuses.

🔒 Security Beginner

How Automatic SSL Works

How free Let's Encrypt SSL works on Go Red Robot hosting: turn on Force HTTPS, automatic issue and renewal, and fixing DNS delays.

🎫 Support & Tickets Beginner

Creating and Managing Support Tickets

Learn how to create support tickets, track their status, and communicate effectively with our support team.

🎫 Support & Tickets Beginner

Submitting and Tracking Feature Requests

Learn how to submit feature requests, track their status, and see what features are in development.

👤 Customer Portal Beginner

Updating Your Profile Information

Learn how to update your account information, change your password, and manage your profile settings.

🎯 Getting Started Beginner

Logging into your account

Sign in to your Go Red Robot customer portal, reset a forgotten password, and unlock your account after too many failed attempts.

🎯 Getting Started Beginner

Getting Started with Your New Hosting Account

New to Go Red Robot? Here is what arrives after you order hosting, which login does what, and the first steps to getting your site live.

🎯 Getting Started Beginner

How to Upload Your Website Using FTP

Upload your website over FTP: create the FTP account in your control panel, connect with FileZilla, and put your files in the correct folder.

📝 WordPress Beginner

Installing WordPress with One Click

Install WordPress in one click from your hosting control panel, then check HTTPS is working and set up automatic updates.