Web Hosting - Getting Started Guide

Once your order is received, we begin work on setting up your new web hosting account. Within a couple hours your hosting account will be ready for use, at which time we'll send you a welcome email that will contain all the information you need to get started (username, password, DNS information, etc). The following steps outline what you should do next:

Step 3 - Setup Email Address(es)

Once you are logged in to your control panel, you'll want to setup at least one email address.

Email Forwarding
If you want to simply "forward" all email to an outside email address (like your ISP email address), then simply set your Default Address (a tool in the Mail Management section of your Control Panel) to your ISP email address.... or to any email address where you want the emails to automatically be forwarded to. That way, any email sent to 'anything'@yourdomain.com will be automatically (and immediately) sent to you.
If you want to forward some emails to one address, and others to other addresses, you can do this with the Email Forwarders tool in your control panel.

Email Accounts (POP3 Accounts)
If you want to create a new email address with it's own account (or email box; this is called a POP3 email account), then use the Email Accounts tool in your control panel. From there you can add POP3 email accounts, assigning each one it's own unique password. You will then want to go to your own email program (like Outlook, Outlook Express, etc.) and configure it to receive the emails sent to the new account you created.

For example: let's say your new hosting account is yourcompany.com and you created an email address in your control panel called you@yourcompany.com and assigned it a password called yourpass. The details you'll need to setup your email account(s) are as follows:

Account name: you@yourcompany.com
Password: yourpass
Incoming POP3: mail.yourcompany.com
Outgoing SMTP: mail.yourcompany.com

Note: Your new email server requires authentication. Make sure you select this option in the advanced settings page.

Once your domain name has propagated, you can upload your website and files to your account using a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program like WS_FTP. If you do not have a FTP program, you can download a free version of WS_FTP... it is one of the most popular FTP programs in use today. Download the free version of WS_FTP.

Microsoft FrontPage
If you are using FrontPage to build your website, then you do not need a FTP program. Instead, use FrontPage's "Publish" feature to publish your website to your hosting account, using the username and password for your account (provided in your welcome email).