VPS Getting Started Guide: Easy First Steps
The fundamentals necessary to creating a functional Internet presence with your new Virtual
Private Server (VPS) This is an excellent resource for first time VPS
users. VPS Administrators will also want to become acquainted with our online
VPS Handbook.
Check Your Domain Name Status
If you requested a domain name with your new Hosting account which we can register for you
(such as a .com, .net, or .org domain name), you can
check your domain name registration status with our
convenient online form. If you already have a domain name registered that you would like to use
with a new Virtual Server, but it is currently being hosted by another provider, then refer to
our domain name transfer guidelines.
Develop Your Web Site
Although we cannot do justice to the topic of building web sites in this small space we can offer some
guidlines and references to other resources on our Help
with HTML and Web Design page.
Upload Content to Your Server
There are several methods to upload website content and
other files to your VPS. Instructions for FTP clients like WS_FTP and Fetch,
and for other methods like iManager
and Windows File Sharing are presented
here.
Create E-mail and FTP User Accounts
Depending on the type of your Hosting Plan, you have the ability to setup e-mail aliases, e-mail
POP accounts, and FTP user accounts. It's very easy to do by following our
step-by-step instructions. Become an Expert Administrator
After you have completed your web site, uploaded the content to your VPS, created some
e-mail/ftp accounts, we invite you to consider some further Virtual Server administration topics.
Virtually everything you need to know about the VPS is included in the VPS Help and
VPS Extensions Help sections of our
web site. Topics covered include web server configuration, virtual subhost configuration, Virtual
Server administration, the Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions, Java and Perl5, and much, much more.
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