Frequently Asked Question and Some Information!

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What is DNS?

On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) represents your domain name (i.e.http://www.webtradenow.com). The DNS is read as a two series of numbers that let the server or hosting company interpret your domain as numbers. The DNS is like an address, just like when you move from one house to another, you have to input the new the DNS number with your registrar. So once you register the domain, the hosting company assigns a number and that number must be entered where ever you registered the domain.

 

What's Hosting?

Hosting a web site is like renting an apartment. It a place where you can put your stuff, but it's on another computer somewhere else. Depending on size, your prices will vary. See Wiki. We recommend IXwebhosting as it is ranked #1 in value, ease of use and reliability! To give you an idea just how good they are, Godaddy is ranked9#.


How do I FTP? (File Transfer Protolcol)

1. Open up your FTP program. and Go to:

2. File

3. Site MGR.

4. Click the New Site Button

5. Click rename button and rename your site.

6. In the host window put your website URL in without the http://www.
e.g. mysite.com

Note: Keep server type set at the default FTP setting.

7. Login type - select normal ( notice the username & password windows
become active)

8. Put in your username & password. This is info you should have received from
your host server company.

(Do not check the box “Don’t save password” if you have one)

Note: Before clicking the Connect button make sure you have navigated to you
local web files through your FTP program.
For details on how to do this see the info below on local website files.

9. After navigating to your local web files click the Connect button.

Note: Sometimes you must drag the perimeters of the FTP windows
down to see the server activity or it may appear that nothing is happening when
it actually is.

10. Click Save and exit to Save your FTP site settings.

Navigating to your local Web files through your FTP program:

Using the same site username and password you use for your web host
company, you must also use the same username and password for your FTP
program.

This is sensitive info and when put into your FTP program, it will allow you
access to your online web files up on your host server.

Important: When you FTP to your server, be sure to click-on to open and
upload into a folder that says public or html. (the index.html page is assumed
to be the "homepage")

These are usually the folders to upload your website that will allow your website
to be viewed online. Check with your hosting company to make sure as they may
use different named folders for this.

FTP navigation to find your local website files

This example is based on your web site folders being set up as:
My Documents>MyWebs>YourWebSite folder for illustration purposes only.

1. Open up your FTP program and locate your site by navigating
to My Documents>MyWebs>YourWebSite folder.

2. Click to open YourWebSite folder so you can see all the folders
in your site coming from your local drive on the left side of your FTP program.

Note: The Left side of the FTP program represents your Local PC files
where you will be copying your website FROM and over TO the live server files.
The Right Side of the FTP main window represents the live server files that will
accept your files to copy up online.

Most FTP programs refer to this as Local Site and Remote Site.
We’ll refer to it as Left and Right so you can visually get the hang of how the
flow works.

3. Now, as the right side of the FTP program becomes populated with folders
and files from your online server, you will then be able to drag/copy any new or
updated files over from the left to the right side of the FTP program.

All updated files can be viewed live online after copying your web files up to the
server.

Note: When drag copying be sure to highlight a file and hold your mouse down
on it while you drag it over from the left side to the right side of your FTP
program.

Optional: To copy online web files from your Live Server back over to your
Local PC, you simply drag/copy any file(s) from the Right side back to the Left
side window of your FTP program.

That’s it.

 

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