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Question: What is website hosting? |
If you
registered your own domain name such as:
"your-own-company.com," and you want to put up a
website
using your registered name, you will need to get a
hosting service to make the name work.
Using HostSite.com's website hosting service, you
can get "your-own-company.com" up on the internet.
You simply build your web pages, and then upload
those pages directly to our servers for the world to
see.
Your customers and friends will then be able
to find you by visiting your website address from
anywhere
in the world. |
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Question: What is the minimal requirement for
website hosting service? |
The minimum requirement is that you must own the
domain name that you are trying to host.
As an example, our registered domain name is:
HostSite.com. Because we own the HostSite.com
domain name, only our company can use the name
HostSite.com on the internet as our website address.
With this in mind, you may start to understand just
how important it is to register your own domain name
for your company as well. By registering your own
domain name, only you can use that domain name
for hosting your website or for your email service.
Because domain registrations are reserved on a
first come first serve basis, we highly recommend
that you
register your own domain names today
before anyone else can register them tomorrow. This
keeps your website naming options available
in case you find out that you really need to use
that specific website name in the future. |
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Question: How do I get my website working after I
ordered a hosting package from HostSite.com? |
To make your website work on the internet after you
ordered a hosting plan here,
simply follow these
step by step setup instructions. We made them easy to
follow. |
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Question: Does email service come with a hosting
plan at HostSite.com? |
Yes, domain email service is included at
HostSite.com with each hosting plan.
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Question: What is HostSite.com's DNS NameServers
for hosting? |
Our DNS NameServers for resolving your hosting and
email accounts are:
ns1.hostsites.com
ns2.hostsites.com
ns3.hostsites.com
We have three DNS NameServers for hosting for extra
redundancy and reliability.
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Question: How do I change my DNS NameServers
listed for domain names I registered at HostSite.com |
HostSite.com makes it fast and easy for you to
change your DNS Nameservers for any domain name
registered here.
1.
Login Account Manager
2. Click on "Domain Names" link
3. Click on the domain name you want to manage.
4. Click on "Change DNS Nameservers."
5. After you get to this point, adding and deleting
NameServers is self-explanatory from that page.
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Question: How do I upload my web pages to your
hosting servers? |
You can either use FTP software or using the
file manager inside
your hosting control panel at:
https://hosting.hostsite.com/OS4/
If you are using FTP, your
setting are:
hostname:
ftp.your-own-domain.com
(replace 'your-own-domain.com'
with your hosting domain name)
username:
your-own-domain.com
(replace 'your-own-domain.com'
with your hosting domain name)
password: (your hosting
password)
If you do not already have FTP software, you can get
a free FTP software called
FileZilla. |
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Question: How do I change my hosting password? |
You need to login to Account Manager to reset your
hosting password.
1. Inside
Account Manager.
2. Click on 'Hosting Accounts' link
3. Click on the "settings" link next to the hosting
domain name that you want to manage.
4. Click on the "change hosting password" link, and
the rest is self explanatory from that point. |
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Question: What can I use to build my html web
pages? |
You can use Microsoft FrontPage 2003 to build your
web pages without even having to
know html. Its simple to use and quite intuitive.
Although we support Front Page Extensions,
we do not, however, recommend using FrontPage
Extensions to upload your web pages
because it will break your pages in the future if
you edit those pages later without using Front Page.
Uploading using FTP gives you the most flexibility
with editing and is the preferred
method of uploading web pages.
Or you can use
Online WebSite Creator to build your website
from templates.
You do not even have to know HTML to build your site
using the site builder.
You can even use free HTML editor such as:
Mozilla Composer
to build your web pages, and then upload them to our
servers using FTP. |
