# A tour of Manage > Where everything lives in Manage, the veldhost control panel: Home, the sidebar, search, the assistant and Support. Source: https://veldhost.eu/docs/tour-of-manage Last verified: 2026-11-12 **Manage** is the veldhost control panel: one place for your sites, domains, email, data and team. This page walks through what you see and what each part is for, with a link to the docs for each. The sidebar only shows what applies to you. Some items appear once you have something to put in them, and some depend on your [role](https://veldhost.eu/docs/roles-and-permissions). If you miss something described here, that is usually why. ## Home [Home](https://manage.veldhost.eu/portal) is your account at a glance: - **New site** (top right) starts a new site. - Once you have sites, three figures sit at the top: **Uptime 30d**, **Deploys · 7 days** and **Next renewal**. Each one links to the list behind it. - **Get set up** walks a new site through its first steps, one at a time, with a button for the next one. - **Sites** lists your first few sites and their status; **All sites** opens the full list. - **Add to your account** suggests products and add-ons you don't have yet. The column on the right holds what needs your attention: - **Needs you**: things waiting on you, each naming the site and the fix (for example a site that is not responding, a release waiting for your OK, or a WordPress plugin with a known vulnerability). - **Renewals**: domains coming up for renewal, and whether each renews automatically. - **Account activity**: recent backups, domain, team and account changes. **All** opens the full Activity page. - **Plan**: your plan, how many sites and mailboxes it holds, and **Change plan** if you may change it. ## The sidebar ### Hosting - **Sites**: every site, with its own tabs for deploys, databases, domains, logs, analytics, backups and staging, configuration and settings. Start at [Sites](https://veldhost.eu/docs/sites), [Deploys](https://veldhost.eu/docs/deploys) and [Backups & staging](https://veldhost.eu/docs/backups-staging). - **Migrations**: shown while we move a site to veldhost for you. See [Migrations](https://veldhost.eu/docs/migrations). - **Email**: your mail domains and mailboxes. It appears once you have email or the Email plan. See [Email](https://veldhost.eu/docs/email). - **Domains**: the domains on your account and their DNS zones. See [Domains](https://veldhost.eu/docs/domains) and [DNS](https://veldhost.eu/docs/dns). - **Monitoring**: uptime, incidents, and the Activity page with what happened on your sites and account. See [Monitoring & status](https://veldhost.eu/docs/monitoring). ### Data Databases, the warehouse, jobs, pipelines and dashboards. Until your plan includes data or your account has data work, this is a single **Data** item with an overview of what the data platform does. Once it has, you see **Overview**, **Databases**, **Jobs & Pipelines**, **Runs** and **Dashboards**. See [Data platform](https://veldhost.eu/docs/data-platform). ### AI agents **AI agents** shows the assistants you have connected and how to connect one, such as Claude or ChatGPT. Owners and billing members also see **Orders** there once an assistant has proposed one. See [AI agents](https://veldhost.eu/docs/ai-agents). ### Settings One item for everything you set once and then leave alone. Its tabs: - **Profile**: your name, language and which emails we send you. - **Security**: your password, two-factor sign-in and passkeys, the devices you are signed in on, and connected apps ([Team & security](https://veldhost.eu/docs/team-security)). - **Team**: who has access and with which role. - **Developer**: three pages, **Git & SSH**, **API & MCP** (tokens) and **Integrations** (webhooks) ([API](https://veldhost.eu/docs/api), [Notifications & integrations](https://veldhost.eu/docs/integrations)). - **Billing** and **Plans**: invoices, payment and your plan, for the owner and billing role ([Billing & account](https://veldhost.eu/docs/billing)). - **Compliance**: the agreements between you and us, and their history. - **Audit log**: who did what in the account, including API tokens and assistants ([Audit log](https://veldhost.eu/docs/audit-log)). ### Support **Support** lists how to reach us: our email address, the contact form, the [platform status page](https://veldhost.eu/status) and these docs. It also shows your account number and the address you are signed in with. Mention both when you write, so we can find your account straight away. ## Search and go anywhere: ⌘K Press `⌘K` on a Mac or `Ctrl+K` elsewhere, or click the search field in the top bar (the magnifier on a phone). Type part of a name: the palette finds your sites, site tabs, domains, DNS zones, mail domains, databases, jobs, pipelines, dashboards, team members and portal pages, plus actions such as **New site**, **Create API token** or **Invite someone**. Use the arrow keys and `Enter` to open one, `Esc` to close. It only lists what you can open, and only offers actions your role and plan allow. ## The assistant The **Assistant** button in the top bar (`⌘J` on a Mac, `Alt+J` elsewhere) opens a side panel where an AI assistant can look things up and do work for you, with your own permissions. It runs on your own AI provider key. See [The built-in assistant](https://veldhost.eu/docs/built-in-assistant). Next to it, the sun and moon button switches between the light and dark theme. ## Related - [What veldhost is (and isn't)](https://veldhost.eu/docs/what-is-veldhost) - [Create your first site](https://veldhost.eu/docs/create-your-first-site) - [Roles and permissions](https://veldhost.eu/docs/roles-and-permissions)