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What
is the web hosting management console?
It is a central location where you can manage many aspects of your web
hosting account. Some of the things you can do from the web hosting management
console are:
- Access your web site traffic statistics.
- Access your web site email mangement console to add/remove email
accounts and change email passwords.
- Change your website password.
- Submit technical support requests.
- Check the amount of disk space you are using.
- See and modify your billing address and hosting package type.
- See your web site IP number.
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| How
do I access the web hosting management console? Surf
to this address... http://www.yourdomain-name.com/webmin (using
YOUR domain name instead of yourdomain-name.com)Where it asks
for a login name... type in your username (typing in YOUR username)Where
it asks for your password.... type in your password Where it
asks for domain.... Leave empty |
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How do I request
technical support? You can send an email to ebiz@megalink.net or
use a form located in the web
site management console.
Our general support phone number is 1-800-520-9911 Monday-Friday 8am to
9pm, Saturday 9am to 2pm. |
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| How
do I access the email that is sent to my domain? You
can check your mail by either using the webmail
page or by setting up your email
software on your computer to pick it up directly from our
mail server. |
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How
do I access email via the online webmail page?
Surf to... http://webmin.domain.com (using
YOUR domain name instead of "domain") Where it asks for a login
name... type in your username (typing in YOUR username)Where it asks for
your password... type in your password... type in your password. After
accessing your webmail account click on "Inbox". |
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How
do I access email via Outlook Express? There are 4
pieces of info you need to configure your email software to
pick up your domain email.
- Acccount name... username@yourdomain-name.com
- password... your password
- pop server... pop.yourdomain-name.com
- smtp server... smtp.yourdomain-name.com (or
whatever your internet service provider recommends
for an smtp server name)
- In Outlook Express click Tools> Accounts> and
then the Mail tab.
Click Add> Mail
- In the field labeled... Display Name... Type
in anything you want > Click Next
- In the field labeled... Email Address... Type
in what you want to use for a reply address (such
as info@yourdomain-name.com) > Click Next
- In the field labeled ... My incoming mail server
is a POP3 server... there is nothing to do as long
as POP3 is selected.
- In the field labeled... Incoming mail (POP3,
IMAP or HTTP) server... type in pop.yourdomain-name.com
- In the field labeled... Outgoing mail (SMTP)
server... type in smtp.yourdomain-name.com (or
whatever your internet service provider recommends
for an smtp server name) > Click Next
- In the field labeled... Account name... type
in your username@yourdomain-name.com
- In the field labeled... Password... type in
your password > Click Next
- Click Finish
- Click Close.
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How
do I access email via some other brand of email software? There
are 4 pieces of info you need to configure your email software
to pick up your domain email.
- Acccount name... username@yourdomain-name.com
- password... your password
- pop server... pop.yourdomain-name.com
- smtp server... smtp.yourdomain-name.com (or
whatever your internet service provider recommends
for an smtp server name)
Due to the many different versions and brands of email
software used on the Internet it is not practical to
list explicit instructions for each one here.
Generally if you can find the settings, preferences, properties or configuration
menu for your email software you should be able to find the areas to input
the above 4 pieces of info. |
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How
do I upload my files to my hosting space using WS_FTP? (Instructions
apply to both Unix and Windows 2000 hosting servers) You
can FTP your files into your web space if you know 3 pieces
of info... host name, username, and password.One of the most
popular programs for transferring files to a web server is
WS_FTP LE. http://www.ftpplanet.com/download.htm Assuming
WS_FTP is already installed on your PC.
- When the program starts, the session window
will automatically appear.
- Select 'new'. Enter yourdomain_name.com into
the profile name box
- Enter ftp.yourdomain_name.com into the host
name box (replacing yourdomain_name.com with your
domain name)
- Replace the userID with your own username
- Replace the password with your password
- Click 'save', to save the profile you've just
created.
- Now click 'Ok' to connect to the server.
- Once connected, your 'live' site will be in
the right hand window and your local files will
be in the left.
- Navigate to the local folder on the left where
you have your web site files stored.
- To transfer files to your account, simply highlight
the files on the left that you wish to copy across,
and use the arrow buttons in the middle of the
window to transfer files to and from the server.
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How
do I upload my files to my hosting space using some other brand
of FTP software?
You can FTP your files into your web space if you know 3 pieces of info...
host name, username, and password. Due to the many different versions and
brands of FTP software used on the Internet it is not practical to list
explicit instructions for each one here.
Generally if you can find the settings, preferences, properties or configuration
menu for your FTP software you should be able to find the areas to input
the above pieces of info. |
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How
do I publish my site using Microsoft FrontPage? (Instructions
apply to Windows 2000 hosting server Only)
With your site open in FrontPage click the "File" menu
and select "Publish Web"
- Type in the full URL for your domain http://www.yourdomain_name.com
- Click"Publish"
- A login screen will appear. Type in your username
and password
Your site will be transferred to the web server.
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| What
is the domain email administration console?This is
the place where you can add or remove password protected mailboxes,
change mailbox passwords or set-up mail forwards and redirects
to other email addresses. You can access it either thru the web
site management console or by surfing to this address.http://warpspeed.megalink.net:8010/Admin/yourdomain-name.com
(using your domain name) |
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How
do I add additional password protected mailboxes to my domain?
- Surf to this web address... http://warpspeed.megalink.net:8010/Admin/yourdomain-name.com
(using your domain name)
- Click the link that says "Enter"
- Put in your domains username and password and hit enter.
user ID............... your username
password........... your password
- In the form to the right of the "Create Account" button
type in a username for the mailbox you want to make. (all
lowercase, no spaces)
- Click the "Create Account" button.
- Where it says CommuniGate Password: Remove the asterisks
and type in a password for this mailbox.
- Click Update
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How
do I redirect/forward mail from a mailbox address to another
email address?
- Surf to this web address... http://warpspeed.megalink.net:8010/Admin/yourdomain-name.com
(using your domain name) or access the email adminstrative
console via the website
console.
- Click on the account name you want to redirect. scroll
down a bit and click on "Automated Rules"
- Checkmark the box labled "redirect all mail to"
- Type in the email address where it should be redirected
to.
- Remove checkmarks from "keep a copy" and "do
not redirect automatic messages"
- KEEP checkmark in "Preserve to/cc fields"
- Click Update
Be sure to test it to be sure it is working as expected.
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How
do I access the web traffic statistical reports?
- Surf to this web address...
http://webtrends.yourdomain-name.com (using your domain name)
user ID............... your username
password........... your password
domain.............. Leave empty
- A new report will be started each month.
- Reports will be run weekly on late Saturday night, and
will build on the previous week for the entire month.
- At the end of the month, that month's report will be archived
and be accessible by the month hyperlink on the webtrends
page and a new report will be started for the 'current' link
- Reports will be available for the prior year to the current
month, then will be overwritten.
- To insure access to year to date info for a given month
it will be advisable to save a copy of the report to your
own PC prior to the archived month being deleted. Simply
click on "File" and "save as" in Internet
Explorer and save the page or pages to your PC's hard drive.
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| What
do "Page Views", "Visits" and "Unique
Visits" mean? Page Views: Hits to
files designated as pages. Supporting graphics and other non-page
files are not counted.Visits: Number of times
a visitor comes to your site. If a visitor is idle longer than
the 30-minute idle-time limit, WebTrends assumes the visit
was voluntarily terminated.Unique Visitors: Individuals
who visited yhour site during the report period. If someone
visits more than once they are counted only the first time
they visit. Impressions tells you the number
of pages viewed excluding the supporting graphic files within
the page. Number of page hits tells you the number
of successful hits to .htm, .html, .asp pages. Hits to graphics
are not counted. Number of Page Views (Impressions)
tells you how many pages were looked at during the period of
the report by all visitors combined.Number of Visitor
Sessions tells you how many visitors came to your site
and look at it within the timeframe defined in the General
Options Tab. Average Number of Page Views Per Day tells
you how many pages each visitor looks at on average. Number
of Unique Users tells you how many visitors your site
had by counting their IP, domain name, or cookie. Total
number of hits shows you all successful hits including
HTML pages, pictures, forms, scripts and files downloaded. Number
of Successful Hits for Entire Site shows you all the
hits that had a "successful" status code. |
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How
do I promote my website to search engines? The search
engines may not find your site unless you invite a them to
come and visit. There is an informative artilcle on search
engine optimization here. http://www.searchengines.com/intro_optimize.html I
am seeing a disturbing trend with some of the popular search
engines. Alot of them are requesting a payment to look at it
right away. If you don't pay... they come and visit when ever
they get around to it. Could be up to 4 weeks or more... if
at all. Yahoo is not even accepting free listings for commercial
websites any more. Here is a link to the Google search engine
free submission page...
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Search engines thrive on text. When they come to visit make sure there
is alot of relevant text for them to key in on. How to articles, FAQs,
testimonials are some of the type of text intensive pages you can add to
a site to embellish it somewhat. The first sentence and paragraph on the
main page is extremely important. It should contain significant keywords
and be relevant to the product and service. Bad... Welcome to our
page. We hope you enjoy it. Better... Acme Widgets is a distributor
of high quality Widgets throughout ME, NH and Mass. Some search engines
will even give you a higher ranking if they have seen links to your site
on other sites. From what I have seen and read,... search engine optimization
is more of an art than a science. What works for one may fail miserably
and possibly get you penalized with another. When I was doing web work
I would visit competitors websites of listings that ranked high in the
engines. I would check out their keywords and try to analyse the site for
the reason they ranked high.Sometimes the crappiest sites that defied search
engine optimization logic ranked high. Hard to figure. Sometimes luck and
being there first helps.. The best thing to do is to read-up on the topic
as much as you can. All of the so called search engine optimization gurus
have different ideas as to what works and what doesn't. After researching
the topic you will notice some common threads and techniques that many
use. You can develop a strategy from there.Above all don't be bashful to
experiment. If it works... great. If not... try something else.Wish there
was a quick, easy magical solution. More resources to check out...
http://www.selfpromotion.com
http://www.abc-webdesign.com/webtips/scoringwell.htm and
the 'mutha' of all pages on the topic...
dmoz.org |
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