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Panel - Getting Started
After your hosting account is set up you will receive a welcome
email containing all your account and username details. You
will need to store this is in a safe place as it contains
important username and passwords to access your account.
There are three main things that need to be done to get your
site and email up and running:
You also need to know:
Uploading
Your Files to the Server
The first thing you need do is upload your files. If your
domain is resolving to our servers you can publish via Frontpage
but if not you will need to use an FTP client to connect
to our servers and upload your domains content.
If you are publishing via Frontpage, you must wait until
the domain is resolving until you attempt to publish. You
can not publish via Frontpage to your domain using the IP
address. You can however use the IP address to upload your
files via FTP.
Once you have successfully uploaded or published your domains
content then you can view this at http://IP_Address/domainname.
The IP address and the exact URL is specified in the welcome
email that we had sent you when your account is setup. If
you have lost your welcome email please contact
us. Once your domain is resolving to our servers, you
can of course view your site at both http://www.yourdomain.com
and http://yourdomain.com.
Setting
Up Your Email
To set up email mailboxes for your domain you need to login
to the the control panel
and then click on 'Email Manager'. Once you have created
the email mailboxes you will need to configure your email
client (e.g. Outlook Express, Outlook, Netscape, Eudora)
to download your email.
*Please note you can't check your email until you have
transferred your domain as email requires name resolution.
Point
Your Domain Name to Your Website
In order to get your domain to point (resolve) to our servers
you need to specify our name servers as the authoritative
name servers (or DNS servers) for your domain. This involves
visiting your domain registrar and changing the name servers
associated with your domain to our name servers (removing
any existing name servers that may be specified from a previous
provider).
For details of our name servers and instructions on how
to transfer your domain at common registrars please
click here.
Once you have done this it takes up to 72 hours before
your site is available as the changes need to propagate
to your ISP.
If you have already done this, and you're not sure whether
your site is resolving or you are receiving a '403 forbidden'
type error, click
here.
Your
Account Pages
Below is a listing of important links you will need to
manage your hosting and email settings.
Website Control Panel: http://control.yourdomain.com or
http://control.nshosts.com
Webmail Login: http://mail.yourdomain.com or http://nshosts.com
MySQL Admin: http://mysql.nshosts.com
MS SQL Online Enterprise Manager: http://sqladmin.nshosts.com
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