Hosting Setup Manual

Transferring your website to FASTdot

Already hosted with another provider? Want to move your website over to FASTdot? This tutorial will outline the steps required to migrate your website and email accounts to your new FASTdot account.

How to Setup your Email Client

For Outlook Express and Netscape Mail you can configure your email account settings as follows:

Uploading your Website via FTP

Once you have created your new account with FASTDOT, you can access it using the details provided in your web hosting welcome email. If your domain name is not officially pointing to our servers yet, use the IP address and the Username which was sent to you in your welcome email.

Accessing Your Webmail

You can access your Webmail account via: http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail

Where to Upload your Files

The Home Directory: /home/yourID/public_html

Your html files, and or the files you want to make accessible to the World Wide Web must be uploaded to your account. When you first FTP into your account, you'll be taken to your "Home" directory.

Accessing Your cPanel

To access your cPanel control panel account manager, you can login at:

http://www.mydomain.com/cpanel

cPanel Username and Passwords

These are stated in the first paragraph of the welcoming email. Until you change them, they're needed to authenticate everything from FTP, to Email access, Control Panel, and MS FrontPage if you're using it. In short, use this Username and Password for any access you're attempting to your account.

Moving to FASTdot

The process of changing host providers is simple and can be accomplished with minimal hassle and downtime provided certain steps are followed in order.

Firewall Settings for Common Web Hosting Services

If you are having trouble accessing cPanel, emails, ftp, etc, you may be having firewall port forwarding issues as certain ports need to be activated for these services to work.

Server Paths

WWW directory: /home/yourID/public_html

Root directory: /home/yourID

Path to PERL: /usr/bin/perl

Path to sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail

.HTACCESS File Hosting Tutorial

In this tutorial you will find out about the .htaccess file and the power it has to improve your website. Although .htaccess is only a file, it can change settings on the servers and allow you to do many different things, the most popular being able to have your own custom 404 error pages. .htaccess isn't difficult to use as it is really just made up of a few simple instructions in a text file.

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Transferring your website to FASTdot

How to Setup your Email Client

Uploading your Website via FTP

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Where to Upload your Files

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Moving to FASTdot

Firewall Settings for Common Web Hosting Services

Server Paths

.HTACCESS File Hosting Tutorial

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