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How to use your hosting

Last updated September 26, 2026

Getting started

1. Create your control panel login. After you pay, go to your account and choose a username and password for your control panel.
2. Log in to the control panel at https://dfw.libre.wtf:8080. Each time, we email a one-time code to your account address; enter it to finish logging in.
3. Add your website: open Sites, then Website, and add your domain (for example yourbusiness.com). Leave the SSL settings alone; we handle them.
4. Point your domain here by changing its nameservers (next steps below). Your DNS and SSL then set themselves up.
5. Add email if your plan or add-ons include mailboxes.

Your logins

You have a few different logins, and they aren’t interchangeable:

Use an email address that isn’t hosted with us for your libre.wtf account, so you can still get your control panel codes if something is wrong with your hosting.

Too many wrong passwords in a short time blocks your connection for a while, for security. If that happens, wait it out and try again with the right login from the table above.

Pointing your domain here

At the company where you registered your domain (your registrar), change the domain’s nameservers to:

• ns1.libre.wtf
• ns2.libre.wtf

Add the domain in your control panel first (as a website, or as an email domain if you only use email). Within about 10 minutes of the registrar change, we set up all the DNS your website and email need: the address records, www, mail records, and email security records (SPF, DKIM and DMARC). Some registrars take a few hours to pass the change on.

Check DNSSEC when you switch. If your domain has DNSSEC switched on, it has to be turned off when the nameservers change, or your domain stops working. Many registrars turn it off for you automatically when you change nameservers, but not all do, so check the DNSSEC setting (usually next to the nameservers) and turn it off if it’s still on. Even then, some visitors may not reach your site for up to a day while old DNSSEC records expire around the internet.

Your domain has to use our nameservers: that’s what lets us keep your website, email and SSL working without you touching DNS. Everything is set up to match what you have in the control panel, and your account page shows every record, so you can see exactly what’s there.

Verification records

Services like Google, Microsoft, Stripe or Mailchimp sometimes ask you to add a DNS record to prove you own the domain, or to send email for you. Add those on your account page under Add a verification record:

• TXT records can go on the domain itself (type @ as the name) or any name, except the email security records we manage (SPF, DMARC and DKIM).
• CNAME records can go on any name nothing else uses, like k1._domainkey or em1234. Not on the domain itself, www, or the names your websites and email use.

Records you add are marked “Added by you” and you can remove them any time. They’re live on our nameservers straight away; the rest of the internet can take up to an hour to see them.

Email with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365

If your email is with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 instead of us, choose that for the domain on your account page and we point its email records there. For Microsoft 365, paste the MX value its admin centre shows you. First delete the domain’s email in your control panel (Email, then Domain): otherwise mail sent from our server, including your website’s own contact emails, would still go to the LibreHost mailboxes. Then add the verification and DKIM records Google or Microsoft give you as verification records.

Email

Create your mailboxes

1. In the control panel, open Email, then Domain, and add your domain (the same one as your website).
2. Open Email Mailbox and add a mailbox. Choose its name and a strong password.
3. Each new mailbox starts at 2 GB. Your plan has a total amount of email storage, and you can divide it however you like as long as your mailboxes add up to no more than the total. For example, a plan with 5 mailboxes and 10 GB could have one 6 GB mailbox and four 1 GB ones.

Forwarding: Email Forward sends mail for an address on to an inbox you already use. Your plan includes a set number of forwarders.

Spam filtering: choose the level for each domain under Email, Domain, your domain, Spamfilter. “Normal” suits most people.

Mail app settings

When your mail app asks for server settings, enter:

Username: your full email address. Password: that mailbox’s password. Choose IMAP if you read mail on more than one device.

Webmail: read mail in any browser at https://dfw.libre.wtf/webmail/.

Email isn’t backed up. Move anything you can’t lose into your mail app’s local folders.

Uploading your website

Files, by FTP

1. In the control panel, open Sites, then FTP-User, and add a user for your website with a strong password.
2. In an FTP app such as FileZilla, connect to dfw.libre.wtf, port 21, with “Require explicit FTP over TLS” (plain, unencrypted FTP isn’t accepted). Use the FTP username exactly as the control panel shows it.
3. Put your website’s files in the web folder.

Databases

Open Sites, then Database User to create a user, then Database to create a database for your website with that user. In your website’s settings, the database server is localhost.

WordPress, Joomla or Drupal

On plans with PHP websites: create a database and database user as above, download the software from its official site, upload it into your web folder by FTP, then visit your website to run its installer.

SSL (https)

SSL is included with every plan, and there’s nothing to do: once your domain points here, we install a free Let’s Encrypt certificate on each of your websites, usually within minutes, and renew it for you. Visitors are sent to the https:// address automatically.

If a new website still shows “Not secure” after an hour, check that your domain’s nameservers point to us (see above). We keep retrying on our own once they do.

Backups

With the Automatic backups add-on, your websites and their databases are backed up every day and the latest 7 copies are kept.

To restore: open Sites, Website, your website, then the Backup tab, and click Restore next to the copy you want.

To download a copy (please do this regularly, since the copies are stored on the same server as your website):

1. On the same Backup tab, click Download next to the newest copy.
2. It’s placed in the backup folder of your website. Fetch it with your FTP app and save it on your own computer or storage.
3. Delete it from the server afterwards; it counts toward your storage while it’s there.

We email you a reminder once a month. Email isn’t included in backups.

Billing and your plan

• Upgrades and add-ons: from your account, under “Upgrade or add”. You see the exact charge before paying. Upgrades can’t be reversed.
• Turning an add-on off: from your account page. It keeps working until the end of the time you’ve paid for.
• Card, invoices and cancelling: “Manage billing” on your account page, or at link.com.
• On your card statement, charges show as LINK.COM* LIBRE.WTF. Payments are processed by Stripe and sold through Link, which also sends your receipts.
• If a payment fails, it’s retried for about two weeks while everything keeps running. If it still isn’t paid, your account is paused, and 30 days later it’s deleted. We email you before that happens.
• There are no refunds. See the refund policy.

Questions

Email info@libre.wtf or call 346-603-7077 Monday to Friday with questions about your account and our service. We don’t build or fix websites or troubleshoot software; for that kind of help, see our terms for the businesses that do.