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Getting Started
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Accessing your site on the web
Your account has been assigned a unique IP address that identifies it from the other computers on the Internet. It is comprised of a series of four, numerical fields separated by dots (e.g. 207.159.xxx.xx). You will be given this IP address as soon as your order has been processed. With this address you will be able to access your web server at any time through your favorite browser by simply typing it into the address bar.
Note: This IP address may change from time to time to support our network infrastructure and growth.
Because you want your Web server to be easily accessible on the Internet, you purchase and register a domain name (e.g. yourdomain.com) to point to your computer’s IP address. This is explained in the Registering a Domain Name section of this guide. Once done properly, you can access your site using the domain name instead of IP address as illustrated below:
http://216.122.55.xxx
http://www.yourdomain.com
Your account, along with files on your account, is accessible through a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Because your visitors will access your site on the Internet, the URL is preceded with the HTTP protocol: http://www.yourdomain.com.
All files placed in the /htdocs directory on your account will become available to the public, most commonly index.html, default.html, etc. If you create folders beneath this directory and files in those directories, then visitors to your site will access those files using a path that starts with /htdocs. For example an index.html placed in a sales directory beneath /htdocs will be accessed using the following URL:
http://www.yourdomain.com/sales/index.html
You do not need to include the file name in the URL as long as you provide it with one of the following names:
default.htm
default.html
default.asp
index.htm
index.html
index.asp
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Advanced Email Features
This includes the following:
Catch-All Addresses:
To forward all email to non existing accounts on your server to a specific email.
For example, if your site is www.someone.com and you have one email setup on it which is for instance webmaster@someone.com, if someone sends an email to admin@someone.com it will be normally returned to sender because the address doesn't exists, but this isn't the case here, catch all addresses enables you to receive all email to your site even if the address is wrong providing that @someone.com is correct.
Auto-Responders:
When someone emails you the Auto-responder will reply to the sender with a pre-defined mesaage you will setup in your control panel.
Mailing Lists:
To create lists of emails for you to send to from a specific email, this is a useful feature for newsletters.
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Email Account defined
Email accounts, also called POP accounts are physical accounts that resides on your mail server. You can receive, store, and send email messages using this account. Email accounts have a pre-defined amount of storage space, a username, and a password associated with it.
you can setup your own unique email addresses in for your domain. For instance, if your domain is abc.com, you can setup email addresses like these:
dave@abc.com
sue@abc.com
sales@abc.com
support@abc.com
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Introduction to Email
Unix-based mail services provide the highest level of system stability and performance.
Your account email service operates much like a post office. It can send, forward, deliver, and receive electronic mail messages. It sends outgoing mail immediately, via the Internet, to any recipient you wish. As long as the message is sent to a valid email address, your mail server will determine the correct route to get it there.
A majority of your email configuration and administration can be performed using the Control Panel.
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Introduction to the Internet
Introduction to the Internet
In its simplest terms, the Internet is a network of networks built upon a common set of protocols that allow computers across the planet to communicate. The World Wide Web (WWW or Web) is a "hyperlinked" communications service that piggy-backs on top of the Internet's communications technology (TCP/IP). It is composed of countless hyperlinked graphical Web pages that host a wide range of text, image, audio, and video media.
"Hyperlinks" are a way of actively linking documents (and other files) to other documents on other computers across the Internet, such as this link which brings you to the Post Office Analogy below. "Hypertext" documents (Web pages) on the WWW are files that contain active hyperlinks to other documents or files, which, in turn, may contain links to even more documents, etc. Clicking on a link (usually blue and underlined text or an image) takes you to another document. Specifically, it creates a request to be sent to the computer hosting the other documents or Web pages.
The "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" (http) is the communications protocol that makes this possible. HTTP runs on top of the Internet's TCP/IP protocol and defines how different types of hyperlinked data (text and multimedia) are transmitted and accessed. Graphical "hyperlinked" Web pages are created and displayed mostly through the use of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is a simple way of using text characters in certain combinations ("tags") with symbols to describe how a Web page should be displayed in a Web browser. Your Internet browser (most commonly Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) uses these HTML tags to display the web page on your screen.
The behind-the-scenes integration gives the Internet an 'endless' appearance. Here is a Post Office Analogy to the Internet.
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Post Office Analogy
If you were to think of the Internet as a Post Office, it would look like this:
The letter carriers (trucks and airplanes) would equate to the Internet communications equipment (computers) and wiring.
The envelope would equate to TCP/IP, the protocol used for information travel.
The letter would equate to HTTP, the protocol used to define the format.
For the most part, you will never need to know the above intricacies. Modern domain purchasing, Web site creation tools, and site control panels take the hassle out of Web site administration on the Internet.
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Reading Email Messages
This takes into account that you have properly setup email accounts on your mail server as outlined in the Creating Email Accounts section.
Your account includes a mail server equipped to send, forward, deliver, and receive electronic mail messages. Email messages are stored on your mail server until you pick them up. You can either read and send messages directly from the server using your Webmail or you can use the traditional Email Client to download and read messages on your personal computer.
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What are email aliases
Email Aliases are a type of email 'pointer' or 'forwarder' that sends the message to another address. One email alias can point to multiple email addresses, and multiple aliases can point to a single address.
One practical use of email aliasing is to create an alternate, easy-to-remember address for a long or awkward email account. This is similar to the practice of using words or phrases in place of telephone numbers. For example, you may have trouble remembering a phone number such as 1-800-932-8437 but have little difficulty remembering 1-800-WEATHER. Likewise, if you have an awkward address such as “11243.332@somedomain.com,” you may wish to provide an alias such as “bob@yourdomain.com” that will point to the same destination.
You can also use email aliasing to distribute email messages to a particular group of people. For example, if you have a group of friends or business associates to whom you regularly send group mail, you could create an alias called “everyone@yourdomain.com” that forwards mail to everyone in that group.
Lastly, aliases are used to give your organization a larger, corporate appearance. Instead of telling people to direct their questions regarding sales, support, employment, and general information all to the same address, you can create aliases at “sales@yourdomain.com,” “support@yourdomain.com,” “jobs@yourdomain.com,” and “info@yourdomain.com,” all of which can be redirected to a single address.
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What is FTP?
Uploading Content using FTP
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standardized method of transferring files between computers, regardless of the platform or operating system the computers are running. FTP is a protocol or method of transferring files. There are many FTP client programs that make FTP very easy to use.
The FTP client is a program that runs on your local computer and interacts with your Web server’s FTP service. Most FTP programs have a graphical interface that make it easy to transfer and manipulate files. If you don’t have an FTP client, you can download one from the Internet for free. The following list of FTP clients is just a sample of those available for download from the Internet (either evaluation copy or full release):
Microsoft Internet Explorer
CuteFTP
SmartFTP
WS_FTP
FTP Voyager
Crystal FTP 2000
For instructions on installing and configuring these clients, please refer to the documentation that accompanies the product. There are two types of FTP access available to a Web site.
Administrative FTP
Anonymous FTP
Note: Anonymous FTP is not a recommended procedure
Because you can upload, download, overwrite, and delete files using FTP; it is good practice to backup your site before making any significant changes!
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is by far the most well known and widely talked about feature of the Internet. When most people refer to “surfing the web” or “going online” they are really talking about utilizing the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to access web content via their web browsers.
What most people don’t know is that the Internet is built around a naming scheme that uses unique, numerical IP addresses, similar to telephone numbers, to identify places (or nodes) on the network. This is done through Domain Name System (DNS). When you type in a Web address, like cybershouts.net, your Web browser resolves the alphabetical address through HTTP down to the numerical, physical location on the Internet, thus providing the World Wide Web (WWW).
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