Setting up your first site or moving from another host? Choose the guide that matches your starting point. Menu names can vary between hosting providers and DirectAdmin skins.
Prefer to watch?
Short visual guides, with narration and captions. Demo screens and official email-app examples show where to start.
Browse all demos and video guides →Your first day with Lizard Hill
From your welcome email to a working website, mailbox, and secure account.
Move your website without losing your email
A self-service migration checklist with DNS, mail, testing, and rollback steps.
Install WordPress and enable supported automatic updates
Use Installatron for installation, updates, and a safer maintenance routine.
Create, download, and test your own backups
Know the difference between your account backups and provider disaster recovery.
Add websites, domain aliases, and HTTPS
Understand website allowances, DNS records, shared resources, and SSL renewal.
Use scoped login keys and catch-all email carefully
Safer automation credentials and sensible mail-delivery defaults.
Create and deploy a Git repository in DirectAdmin
Use account-scoped repositories without putting secrets or untested code online.
Enable Redis and connect an application safely
Optional object caching with account-specific connection settings.
Move from cPanel or another shared hosting service
Transfer website files, databases, email, and DNS from a shared host to Lizard Hill DirectAdmin.
Move WordPress from another hosting provider
Choose an Installatron or full-site migration workflow, test the copy, and keep your domain and email working.
Move from WordPress.com to Lizard Hill
Understand content exports versus full-site transfers, import your posts and media, and rebuild what does not transfer.
Move from Wix or Squarespace to WordPress
Plan a visual-editor rebuild, bring over supported content, and preserve your domain, page addresses, and email.
Use Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or other external email with Lizard Hill
Host your website at Lizard Hill while keeping email, calendars, and collaboration with Google Workspace, Exchange Online, Microsoft 365, or another provider.
Check your launch settings
Existing customers can run read-only DNS, mail-routing, and HTTPS checks for their own assigned hosting service.
Sign in for launch checksLooking for email or AI-interface instructions?
Our existing knowledgebase has mail-client settings and Natural Language Interface setup and safety guides.
Browse the knowledgebase