Settings in the HostBarrel Hub holds your profile, company details, password, security, alerts and activity. Open it from the circle with your initials at the bottom of the sidebar. The bell in the header shows your latest notifications, and the Notifications page has them all.

The Settings Tabs

Step 1: Click the circle with your initials

It sits at the bottom of the sidebar.

The bottom of the HostBarrel Hub sidebar with the circle showing the initials MS ringed in orange.

Step 2: Pick a tab

Everyone sees Profile, Password Update, Security, Alert Settings and Your Activities. The Company tab appears only if your role can view company details.

The Settings page with its tabs down the left: Profile, Company, Password Update, Security, Alert Settings and Your Activities, with the Profile tab open.

Profile

Change your First Name, Last Name, Job Title, Phone and Timezone, then click Save Changes. Your Email is shown but cannot be edited here. Leave Timezone empty to follow your computer. Support sees your local time from it.

The top of the Profile tab with a sample name, email marked Verified, job title, phone and timezone, and the Save Changes button ringed in orange.

Your address is your own, apart from the company's, and has its own Save Address button.

Email Verification

A Verified or Unverified label sits beside your email at the top of Profile. If it says Unverified, click Send verification email in the Email Verification section. Verifying makes sure account notices and recovery emails reach you. If you don't verify in the first 7 days after signing up, your account is flagged for review by our team.

The Email Verification section of the Profile tab for an unverified email, with the Send verification email button ringed in orange.

Company

This tab has Company Details, Contact, Address and Billing And Tax. Leave Company time zone empty to take it from the address. A role that can view but not change these details sees a notice and no Save button.

The Company tab with sample Company Details, Contact, Address and Billing And Tax sections for Harbor Lane Bakery.

Changing Your Password

Step 1: Open Password Update

Click the Password Update tab.

Step 2: Enter the passwords and save

Enter your Current Password, then a New Password of at least 8 characters, type it again in Confirm Password, and click Save.

The Change Password form with Current Password, New Password and Confirm Password filled in and hidden, and the Save button ringed in orange.

Security

This tab holds two-factor authentication. For setting it up and recovery codes, see the two-factor authentication guide.

The Security tab in Settings saying two-factor authentication is enabled and that you can't turn it off yourself.

Alert Settings

These switches apply to your account only, and each change saves by itself. Site Down, Site Restored, High Bandwidth, Bandwidth Limit, High Storage, Storage Limit, Invoice Due and Invoice Overdue decide whether we email you that alert. The company owner starts with them on, and team members start with them off.

The Alert Settings tab, headed Alert Preferences, with eight switches grouped under Site Health, Resource Usage and Billing.

Your Activities

This tab lists what you have done in the Hub, with a filter that starts on All Actions. To see what everyone on the account has done, click View All on the Dashboard's activity card.

The Your Activities tab listing five recent sample actions with their site, date and status, and the filter set to All Actions.

The Bell

The bell shows your latest ten notifications. Click one to mark it read and open what it is about. Mark all as read appears when something is unread, and View all notifications opens the full page.

The notifications panel open under the bell, with a red unread count, sample notifications about invoices and a domain, Mark all as read at the top, and View all notifications at the bottom.

The Notifications Page

The page at /notifications lists alerts about your sites, domains, SSL certificates and billing, newest first, under Today, Yesterday and Earlier.

The Notifications page with sample alerts grouped by day, All and Unread filters, and Mark all as read and Alert Settings at the top right.
  • All and Unread filter the list. Unread shows a count
  • Mark all as read clears everything unread
  • Alert Settings opens that Settings tab
The Notifications page filtered to Unread, with the Unread filter and its count ringed in orange and only unread alerts listed.

Opening the page does not mark anything read. Read is not the same as resolved: an unpaid invoice is still unpaid.