Laptop Battery At Hostchart.com we are often asked what is involved in the
setup of a new hosting account. This article reviews the basic
steps of:
1. domain name setup
2. login to a control panel to manage the hosting account
3. set up of new email accounts
4. upload of a website to a hosting plan.
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Thinkpad These are the first things a new web hosting customer needs to
accomplish, and in a lot of cases they will not need to adjust
their account again, except to view website traffic statistics.
This article covers these four steps, as well as a couple of other
important tasks needed to get a website up and running with your
hosting plan.
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Laptop Computers Step 1: Domain Name Setup
The first step in getting your website up and running is to
purchase a domain name. Current prices range between $8 to $20 per
year. This will be the actual name of your website. No one else
will be able to use your name once it is registered. Examples of
common domain names you have heard of may include ebay.com,
mapquest.com, etc. Once you have chosen a domain name, it needs to
be pointed to the server that holds your hosting account, so when
someone types www.yourdomainname.com into a browser, it will find
the website files you will upload to your hosting plan.
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Laptop Computer Every domain name has at least 2 DNS settings that map the
domain to an actual computer. The Domain Name Server (DNS) is a
server that has a look up table of domain names and the IP address
they belong to. The IP address is the internet address of a
computer connected to the internet. There are thousands of DNS'
throughout the internet, which help with its flexibility. When you
order a new hosting account with a web hosting company, they will
send you 2 DNS settings. There are at least 2 DNS settings for each
domain. This allows for a backup in case the primary DNS setting is
unavailable. This is one of the beauties of the internet. Each DNS
contains only a handful of domain names, and each domain name has a
backup. This makes it virtually impossible for a hacker to bring
down all websites, or the entire internet for that matter.
Desktop Computer You will need to login where you registered your domain name and
change the DNS settings to the ones that the web hosting company
has given you. Note that you will have a control panel to manage
your domain name, as well as a control panel to manage your hosting
plan. New customers to hosting are often confused about the
difference between registering their domain name and hosting the
website for that domain name. Once you make these DNS changes, it
will take 24-72 hours (1 to 3 days) for your domain name to
propagate, at which time your domain name will start pointing to
our servers and to your new hosting account. The time delay is
caused by the distributed nature of the internet. A hosting company
cannot tell you exactly how long it will take for your domain name
to propagate across the whole world. It is dependent on all of the
Internet providers in the world picking up the new results.
Notebooks Step 2: Logging in to your Control Panel
You'll want to login to your control panel to do such things as
view web traffic statistics, set up email addresses, set up
databases, do backups, etc. Every web hosting company offers a
control panel to manage your account (cPanel, Plesk, Helm, and
Hsphere are the most popular control panels offered by web hosting
companies, but some have even built there own to customize it to
their services). They all offer basically the same features. In the
control panel you can read your email, or set it up to be read
through an email program like Outlook. You will also manage
databases here, view your website's performance, backup your
website, install pre-built scripts, etc. You can use the control
panel to upload your website's files, but a lot of programmers
prefer to do this through a separate FTP program. There will be
more on this later. You should have a way to login before your
domain propagates. This will allow you to get started on your
control panel while propagation is occurring.
Lenovo Step 3: Setting up Email accounts
Once you are logged in to your control panel, you'll want to setup
at least one email address. Even if you do not want one, it is good
to at least define one as a catch all to make sure you do not miss
any emails sent to your domain.
Hard Drive Email Forwarding-
If you want to simply "forward" all email to an outside email
address (like your ISP email address), then simply set your Default
Address (a tool in the Mail Management section of your Control
Panel) to your ISP email address.... or to any 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 forward some emails to one address, and others to
other addresses, you can do this with the Email Forwarders tool in
your control panel.
Travelstar Email Accounts (POP3 Accounts)-
If you want to create a new email address with its own account (or
email box; this is called a POP3 email account), then use the Add /
Del Email Accounts tool in your control panel. From there you can
add POP3 email accounts, 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.
Gateway 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:
Laptop Parts Account name: you@yourcompany.com
Password: yourpass
Incoming POP3: mail.yourcompany.com
Outgoing SMTP: mail.yourcompany.com
Software Here is a video tutorial that shows setting up an email account
in Outlook,
http://www.roundberry.com/tutorials/email/email_outlook2002.htm.
Hard Drives Step 4: Uploading your Website/Files
Once your domain name has propagated, you can upload your website
and files to your account using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
program like WS_FTP. If you do not have an FTP program, you can
download a free version of WS_FTP... it is one of the most popular
FTP programs in use today. FTP is the most common way to move files
around on the internet. If you are going to build and publish
websites you will become very familiar with FTP. It is a simple
protocol and there are a number of good FTP clients available for
free. With FTP you connect to another computer and drag and drop
files between them. In this case the "other computer" is the server
where your hosting plan is located.
Electronics Microsoft FrontPage-
If you are using FrontPage to build your website, then you do not
need an FTP program. Instead, use FrontPage's "Publish" feature to
publish your website to your hosting account, using the username
and password for your account (provided in your welcome email).
Canon Prior to Domain Propagation-
Another way to upload your files to your hosting account is by
using the File Manager tool in your control panel. In fact, you can
do this prior to your Domain Name propagating, so that your website
will be functional prior to your domain name working. All of the
common control panels have a File Manager tool or at least an FTP
client.
Desktop Pc Viewing your Website/Files Prior to Domain Name
Propagation-
You may want to view your website prior to your domain name
working, to make sure that it looks and works the way it should.
You can immediately view your website prior to your domain name
propagating by using the following link:
Desktop Computers Http://IPaddress/~username
Think Pad Where IPaddress is the primary nameserver IP address given to
you by your hosting company, and username is the username for your
new account which is also given to you by your web hosts. So for
example, if you are assigned the IP address of 12.123.12.123, and a
username of "youracct", then you would simply browse to:
Repair Http://12.123.12.123/~youracct
Data Recovery If you want to view a specific page in your website, say
contactus.html, then you would browse to:
Cisco Http://12.123.12.123/~youracct/contactus.html
Keyboard Of course, you will first have to upload your website to be able
to view the pages.... and you can do that from within your Control
Panel.
Monitor 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 are now in business!
Desktop About the Author: Rodney Ringler is President of Advantage1 Web
Services, Inc., which owns a network of Web Hosting Informational
Websites including HostChart.com, ResellerConnection.com,
FoundHost.com, ResellerForums.com, and HostingKnowledge.net. Rodney
has over 15 years industry experience from programming to internet
marketing.
Catalogue: Internet Business | Web Hosting
Title: How to Get Started With Your Hosting Plan By: Rodney
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