Thank you for choosing Profit Gate as your hosting company. We will provide you with unusually fast and personal service.
Please read all the information on this page before uploading your pages.
If, after reading this page, you still need assistance - give us a call.
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Toll Free Tech Support Line: (866) 292-1110
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Introduction
You can start uploading material immediately by logging into your account: Account Login Page
Note: Domain customers should not confuse their Domain Account information with this system. Your Hosting Account username and password may be different than what you chose for your Domain Account. These are 2 separate and different systems.
If your domain has been purchased over 24 hours ago, on Profit Gate's Domain Registry, or has been "pointed" to Profit Gate's nameservers over 24 hours ago, you can then view it at: http://www.yourdomain.com
If you have just purchased a new domain, or have just transferred to our nameserver (less than 24 hours), you may have to wait for the network to be updated before seeing your site online.
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POINTING YOUR DOMAIN TO OUR SERVER
IMPORTANT!
Your site will not work correctly until your
domain is "pointing" to our web servers.
Contact us for assistance.
It can be a bit complicated, so if you need any help with this, just give us a call. We will gladly help you with this step.
We highly recommend that you transfer your domain to our $12.95 per year, self-managed system. It is not necessary now, but the next time you renew it, save money and have better control of your domain on our system at: www.cheap-domains-registration.com
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TO UPLOAD FILES TO YOUR SITE:
If you want a good FTP program, to upload files to your site, you can get one FREE at: www.smartftp.com You will need to install this or some other FTP program in order to upload to your site.
Log on to our server with your FTP program by using:
- your domain name
- your username
- your password
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Important! Where to Upload Files
- Use only the directory called: "public_html".
- This is your "main folder". DO NOT DELETE THIS! " If you upload to any folder OTHER than public_html - your site will not work.
- Do not delete any files that you see outside of the public_html directory as these are system files!
- The public_html folder is the equivalent of www.yourdomain.com and is where your home page MUST be located.
- Your home page must be titled index.html (or default.html) in order to function correctly. (htm may also be used in place of html)
- Never use SPACES in any web file name. Use dashes or underscores.
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How does this all work?
On the screenshot below is a view of Smart FTP. The public_html folder on the Web Server (shown below as yourname.com) is where you put the home page of your site. Be sure to name the home page - index.html. This is necessary for your site to work properly.
To upload your web pages, simple select one or more files on your local drive (shown below as "Local Browser") and drag-and-drop them onto the Web Server folder called public_html.
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You may create as many sub-folders as you like, under your "public_html" folder. It is best, however, to keep all web pages in the main folder - public_html . That way your page links are simple to create.
Many web masters keep all their html documents in the main folder (public_html), and all the images in an "image" subdirectory. To work properly, this requires that your pathway for images look like this:
<img src="images/filename.jpg">
where "filename" is the name of the image file.
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USING YOUR HOSTING CONTROL PANEL
To Login to your control panel, go to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
You will be prompted to enter your username and password. Use the username and password selected when you set up your hosting account.
You are now looking at your Profit Gate Hosting Control Panel.
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Setting Up Your E-mail
Click the first icon, called "Mail" (top left), which is used to create, edit, or remove e-mail accounts. In addition, you can set up forwarding, spam filtering, and more.
Click the link called, "Manage/Add/Remove Accounts".
At bottom of page, click "Add Account".
Type in your email prefix (the part of the e-mail address before the @ symbol).
If you have more than one domain, select which one you are setting up and e-mail box for.
Now enter a password.
You may change the disk space quota for the mailbox if you like, but the recommended default is 10 MBs.
Finally, click the "Create" button.
Your e-mail account is now set up on our server.
Now, to access it, you have two choices.
Option 1. Use your own e-mail program (such as Outlook Express, Outlook, etc.), or . . .
Option 2. Use Web Mail, to access your e-mail from any computer via the Internet (similar to HotMail and Yahoo Mail).
For Option 1, go to the "Manage/Add/Remove Accounts" menu, click the "Configure Mail Client" button for the mailbox you want to set up. Follow the on-screen instructions to automatically or manually set up your program.
For Option 2. Go to - http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail
- Your username is the e-mail address of the mailbox you just set up.
- Enter the password for that mailbox and click ok.
- Choose from the selection which webmail program you wish to use.
- You can change programs at any time.
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If you have any other questions, check here:
FAQ about hosting accounts
Need to cancel your hosting account? Click here.
Let us know if you need any help.
Toll Free Tech Support Line
1-866-292-1110
8 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time
Monday - Friday.
And thanks for choosing Profit Gate as your host.
Dan Lewis, President
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