Onboarding & Training

Experts on hand.

Save time and energy with our in-house professionals so you can focus on what matters. Use these services for your new hosting service or apply them to an existing account.

$79.9945-minute training session
1-on-1guidance from an OIS expert

Quick start

Get up and running fast with 1-on-1 training by an OIS expert. Learn how to use the powerful tools included with your account and enjoy advice and guidance tailored to your unique objectives in a dedicated 45-minute training session. Session topics include:

cPanel guided tour

The parts you will actually use — file manager, email accounts, databases, DNS records and backups — and, as importantly, which parts you can safely ignore.

Web builder recommendations

Which builder suits what you are making, based on who maintains the site afterwards. Picking the wrong one is expensive to undo later.

WordPress, Weebly and other site builders

Getting your chosen platform installed, configured and updating itself, rather than left at defaults.

Theme, plugin and widget selection

How to choose and install them, and how to tell an abandoned plugin from a maintained one — the single most common way small sites get compromised.

Content advice tailored to your goals

What belongs on which page, and what the site needs to say before it can do its job.

Page creation — layouts, text and images

Building pages and getting images onto them at a sensible size, so the site is not slow before it has any visitors.

Email accounts and spam protection

Creating mailboxes, connecting them to your phone and desktop, and the authentication that keeps your mail out of other people’s junk folders.

General advice so you can succeed online

Whatever else is in your way. It is your session — bring the specific thing you are stuck on.

Is this worth booking?

It is worth booking if you have a hosting account and are not sure what to do with it — the session is 45 minutes of one-to-one time with somebody who sets these up daily, and you set the agenda. It is aimed at people building their first site, or inheriting one somebody else built.

It is not the right thing to book if something is broken. Faults are support's job, not training's, and support is included with your hosting at no charge —open a ticket instead and we will fix it. Migrating an existing site is also not this: we move sites across free of charge, as a separate service.

Sessions are booked by arrangement rather than through the cart, soget in touch and we will find a time. You can book one for a brand new hosting account or apply it to an account you already have.

Support

At your service

  • Our support agents are available 24/7/365 days a year.
  • Advice on hosting plans to application deployment guidance

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