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Once your order is received, we begin work on setting up
your new web hosting account. Within a couple hours your hosting
account will be ready for use, at which time we'll send you a
"Welcome Email" that will contain all the information
you need to get started (username, password, etc.). Here is what
you should do to get started:
Step 1 - Domain Name
Setup
If you already own your
domain name, you have to change it's DNS (Domain Name Server)
settings to the ones we give you in your welcome email. For
example:
Primary nameserver:
dns1.serverstoday.com IP:
209.123.49.192
Secondary nameserver: dns2.serverstoday.com
IP: 209.123.49.193
Note: The above mysql hosting you are on our
blue.serverstoday.com server. Please consult your welcome email
to know what server your account is on, and what your
nameservers should be set to.
If you registered your
domain name through us, then we will have taken care of this for
you... otherwise, you will have to do it yourself through the
domain registrar where you registered your domain name. For
detailed instructions on changing your domain name's DNS
settings, we have put together Flash Support Tutorials showing
you how to make these changes at 10 of the more popular domain
name registrars. Click
here to take a look at these tutorials.
Once you make these changes, it will take 24-36 hours for them
to take effect (for your domain name to propagate), at which
time your domain name will start pointing to our servers and
your new hosting account.
If you register your domain name with us, we will take care
of all this for you when we setup your hosting account.
Step 2 - Login to
Control Panel
You'll want to login to
your control panel to do such things as view web stats, setup
email addresses, MySQL databases, etc. To access your control
panel, mysql hosting http://yourcompany.com/cpanel,
followed by your username and password (which are given to you
in your welcome email). This will not work until your domain
name has fully propagated to our servers.... prior to this, you
can login using the Primary nameserver IP number (also given to
you in your welcome email), like this: http://209.123.49.192/cpanel
(this assumes your Primary nameserver is dns1.serverstoday.com;
be sure to check your welcome email to see what server your
account is located on).
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Step 3 - Setup Email
Address(s)
Once you are logged in to
your control panel, you'll want to setup at least one email
address. If you want to simply "forward" all email to
an outside email address (like your ISP email address), then
simply set your "Default Address" (located in
"Mail Manager") to your ISP email address.... where
you want the emails to automatically be forwarded to. That way,
any email sent to 'anything'@yourdomain.com will be
automatically (and immediately) sent to you.
If you want to create a new email address with it's own account
(or email box; this is called a POP3 email account), then click
on "Mail Manager" in your control panel, then
"Add/Remove Accounts". From there you can add POP3
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assigning each one it's own unique password. You will then want
to go to your own email program (like Outlook, Outlook Express,
etc.) and configure it to receive the emails sent to the new
account you created.
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For example:
let's say your new hosting account is "yourcompany.com"
and you created an email address in your control panel called
"you@yourcompany.com"
and assigned it a password called "yourpass". The
details you'll need to setup your email account(s) are as
follows:
Account
name: you@yourcompany.com
Password:
yourpass
Incoming
POP3: mail.yourcompany.com
Outgoing
SMTP: mail.yourcompany.com
For more details on how
to do this, we've created a support tutorial entitled
"Creating an email account in Outlook Express". All
our support tutorials are located on our Technical
Support page.
Step 4 - Upload your
Website/Files
Once your domain name has
propagated, you can upload your website and files to your
account using a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program like WS_FTP.
If you do not have a FTP program, you can download a free
version of WS_FTP... it is one of the most popular FTP programs
in use today. Click
here to download the free version of WS_FTP .
If you are using FrontPage to build your website, then you do
not need a FTP program. Instead, use FrontPage's
"Publish" feature to publish your website to your
hosting account, mysql hosting the username and
password for your account (provided in your welcome email).
Congratulations!
After completing the above steps, you will have setup your
domain name, created email accounts, and uploaded your website
to your web hosting account. You're now in business!
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