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description: Quick orientation for new customers — what WHP is and where to start.
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Welcome aboard. WHP is the control panel you'll use to run your hosting with us — adding domains, creating sites, managing email, checking backups, and turning on optional add-ons. Every WHP account is its own isolated container, so what you do here only affects your stuff.

## What to do first

A typical first hour looks like this:

- **[Add your domain](/whp/how-to/add-a-domain/)** — point a domain at your hosting, whether you registered it with us or somewhere else.
- **[Create your first site](/whp/how-to/create-a-site/)** — PHP, Node, or static HTML; we provision the container in under a minute.
- **[Set up email](/whp/how-to/create-an-email-account/)** — add a mailbox on your domain and wire up your email client.

## Where to learn more

- **[What is containerized hosting?](/whp/getting-started/what-is-containerized-hosting/)** — plain-language explainer of what makes this different from shared hosting or a VPS.
- **[Service hostnames](/whp/reference/service-hostnames/)** — how to connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, and SMTP from inside your site.
- **[Add-ons](/whp/add-ons/overview/)** — monitoring, archival email, resource upgrades, and more.

## Getting help

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