How to Update Your Contact Email in cPanel
cPanel sends important notices — disk quota warnings, SSL renewals, suspicious-login alerts — to your contact email. Keep it current, and never point it at an address on the same hosting account.
Step-by-step
- Log in to cPanel.
- Open Contact Information. Click your avatar (top-right) → Contact Information, or search "contact".
- Enter your primary contact email. Use an external mailbox (e.g. a personal Gmail) — if your domain's mail ever has a problem, a notice sent to the same domain would never reach you.
- Optionally add a second contact email. Two addresses mean alerts are never missed; you can use your EconomicalHost billing contact here.
- Tick the notification preferences. We recommend keeping all boxes ticked — especially "reaching disk quota" and "account login from a new IP".
- Click Save. Changes apply instantly.
💡 Good to know
- This email is also used to verify password-reset requests.
- Disk-quota warnings give you time to clean up before mail starts bouncing — see managing disk usage.
- Keep your billing contacts at EconomicalHost updated too — they are separate from cPanel contacts.