Getting Started - For New Customers
Posted by RAJU K, Last modified by Kim S. on 15 January 2016 08:26 PM
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Welcome to FastWebHost. We are glad to have you and are committed to provide reliable web hosting with 24/7 customer support. Please go through following documentation before using the services provided to you by FastWebHost.com. We assume that you have purchased a hosting plan and have received our welcome email with hosting logins and DNS information. If you have not received the welcome email within 6 hrs of signing up please contact our support immediately. Once you go through the following steps you can easily setup your site with FastWebHost. STEP 1 : POINT YOUR DOMAIN DNS TO OUR SERVERS ( TRANSFER DNS ) Before pointing your domain DNS to our servers, You need to collect the primary name server and secondary name server address provided in your hosting plan welcome email (Transfer Domain Section) Then select the desired option as listed below to update domain DNS. OPTION 1 : DOMAINS REGISTERED WITH FASTWEBHOST.COM If you registered your domain with FastWebHost.com and purchased hosting plan you can update your domain DNS to our servers using below steps. Login to our Client Area at https://www.fastwebhost.com/clients/clientarea.php with your domain name and password which you created with your order. 1) Click on "My Domain" link TAB For Example : 4) Then click on the "Save Changes" button. Note: You need to wait 24-48 hrs for your domain DNS info propagation. OPTION 2 : DOMAINS NOT REGISTERED WITH FASTWEBHOST.COM BUT HOSTING WITH FASTWEBHOST.COM. You need to update your domain DNS at your registrar site. Please contact your domain registrar and give DNS information provided in hosting welcome email. So that your registrar can update DNS on your domain. You can find out who is your domain registrar and where your domain DNS pointing, from http://www.xwhois.com Note: You need to wait 24-48 hrs for your domain DNS info propagation. STEP 2 : ACCESSING SITE CONTROL PANEL ( cPanel ) Make sure that your updated domain DNS and propagated as per Step 1 before proceeding further. http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel You will be asked to enter username and password which you can find in your welcome email under "ACCESSING YOUR SERVER" section. Note: Replace yoursite.com with your actual domain name. Once you login to control panel you can create email accounts, sub domains and MySql Databases etc. To learn about cpanel features please see visual tutorials at http://www.fastwebhost.com/tutorials.html STEP 3 : UPLOADING FILES TO YOUR WEBSITE To publish your website (upload the files from your local computer) A ) FTP Software (WS_FTP, CuteFTP, SmartFTP ) You can download and install on your computer from following links Before uploading through your FTP software requires following details. -- FTP SERVER NAME : ftp.yoursite.com or Server IP ( you can find it in the welcome email ) Your home page must be placed in the "public_html" directory and must be named
If you designed your site using Microsoft Front Page you can directly publish using Front page. FrontPage will not work until your domain DNS propagated to our
You can also upload files using cpanel File Manager. If you have any doubts about uploading files through Front Page, FTP and File manager you can see visual tutorials from http://www.fastwebhost.com/tutorials.html For any further help open helpdesk ticket at http://support.fastwebhost.com or send an email to support@fastwebhost.com | |
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