Are you already bought your new webhosting account and is ready to publish your website to the world? You must be remember, before you trying to upload your website pages to your hosting server, first of all, check these 2 important factors and which will affect your website management with the time.
First, test your FTP Account. Try uploading any webpage to your hosting space by FTP if you will be able to upload your website files to your webhosting space or not. You will need any FTP program to do that. You can make a test page by openning any text editor and just write “welcome to my website” and save it as index.html. You have a lot of choices regarding the FTP program. There’s many solutions for everyone, some good free programs to consider are Cute FTP (cuteftp.com), Smart FTP (smartftp.com).
Open the FTP program after you’ve created your test web page and ask it to connect to your host’s FTP server. This is usually ftp.yourhost.com, also, you can using ftp.yourdomain.com to access it through your own website. Then, you can browse through your website folders looking for any existing index.html file once you’re connected, it’ll be in a folder called something like ‘public_html’. Upload your created index.html over this one, and click ‘yes’ when you’re asked if you want to overwrite it.
After that, try to launch your web browser to access your website. You’ll see what you wrote in thee test home page right there on your website home page if everything’s as it should be. And now, you can replace that a little bit of text with the real one. On the other word, if you don’t see the text, you might want to refer to your hosting support pages.
Once the all part is settle, you should create an email address. Most of web hosting providers allow you to configure your hosting account using a program called cPanel. This welcome email should tell you how to access your webhosting control panel after receiving your hosting account information. For example like http://www.sealserver.com/cpanel.
To access your web hosting control panel, you’ll be asked for your username and password, and then you’ll find a screen full of icons. From the icons, it depend on which features you got with your web hosting account. You can create any email address accounts at the icon called ‘email’.
You will need to add an account in your email program to check your email. This part is so easy, just look for an option in your email program’s ‘Tools’ menu called ‘Accounts’, and follow the instructions to add a new email account. And you’ll be asked for POP3 and SMTP servers (provided by your hosting provider), as well as the email address and password you just configured in cPanel. To see if it works or not, try sending an email to your new emaill address from one of your other accounts.
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