By default, when you purchase your hosting plan, your email address on the cPanel contact will be the same as your email contact address on your billing account. If this email address is no longer valid, or you wish to use a different one, you can update this with the Update Contact Info section of cPanel.

This email address is used for emailing cPanel password resets and sending automatic warnings about disk quota and bandwidth limits.

The purpose of these warnings is to give you sufficient time to take action when your plan is approaching these resource limits. So it is important that you keep a working email address on the cPanel's contact information.

The email address you enter should not be hosted from your cPanel account, and we suggest using one from a third-party email provider, such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. The reason for this is to avoid the situation where you no longer receive emails when your disk quota for the cPanel account or email account itself has reached its maximum.

A secondary email address is allowed so that you can get these messages sent to two email addresses.

Finally, you can set what events will trigger a warning message to be sent out. By default, bandwidth, disk quota, and email account quota will all trigger a warning message. You should keep these default settings, unless you are comfortable with not being notified as you reach a resource limit of your plan.

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