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how do i get my website on the internet?

April 25, 2010 123 hosting 2 Comments

i have made a website using WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web builder and i would like to get it onto the internet. i have bought the domain name i want to use. how do i get the site on there?
the site that i bought the domain name off and is supposed to host the site is www.123-reg.co.uk if that helps!
any help is much appreaciated =]
i have a hosting package with 123-reg.co.uk where do i find the script?

When you purchased a domain and hosting package, they already provide you a CPanel username and password, you need to create and FTP account so that you can upload your files through FTP(File Transfer Protocol). But, you should name your home page as index.html to view the homepage your site. If you have trouble solving the domain name and hosting then you should call an 24×7 Technical support outsourcing staff to aid you.

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Can a php extension be removed?

April 14, 2010 123 hosting 2 Comments

123 reg is hosting my website.i’m using the file manager to upload the website. it says the first page has to be index.htm or index.html. so i renamed the file to that. it is a php file and so when i upload the file, it’s called index.html.php. can i get rid of the extension name? all i need is index.html. what can i do to fix this? it also asks whether it should be uploaded as text or binary. *confusion* plz help!

index.php works fine so you don’t need to change anything. Just upload it as index.php

The browser will look for an htm or html file first but as long as your only index file is the .php it will then go to that.

i would suggest downloading ace3ftp from the link below. It’s free and makes uploading your sites a doddle. It decides how to upload automatically…

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Better to host from a local company?

April 11, 2010 123 hosting 2 Comments

I have an issue here. I have the .com and .co.uk domain names and i live in the united kingdom. I want good search engine rankings.
Should i get hosting from an American company like "hostgator" or a british one "123 reg"?

You asked a very important question!
You should make that decision on where you want your clientele or visitors from.
Example: America clients go with american hosting company

UK clients go with Uk hosting company

I believe search results shift to the area you are from

*If you are trying to build clientele from both countries, I would suggest having both domain names pointing to your website.

If you have any other questions or need free advice, feel free to contact me at seoexpert78@yahoo.com

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Uploading a Favicon to my charity website?

April 9, 2010 123 hosting 3 Comments

Ok I have created a favicon and saved it as favicon.ico in pictures on my computer.
the website I have www.aid4egypt.co.uk is hosted by 123.reg so I don’t have access to certain things but I can edit etc and add HTML codes on pages with their sitebuilder.
I have tried the code below but it does not seem to work any suggestions?
<html>
<head> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.aid4egypt.co.uk/favicon.ico">
</head>
</html>

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico">

in the head section.

do not forget to upload the icon to your root directory.

Favicons do not always appear immediatly, they can take a few hours to show up.

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Do I need a web hosting package to make my own website as well as a domain?

April 6, 2010 123 hosting 16 Comments

I’m new to web design and have very little background knowledge so bear with me!
I’m making a web comic and I know I need to buy a domain name but do I also have to pay for a hosting package as well?

If I need a hosting package I’m not sure what features I’ll need. Each of my comics is about 12 pages of A4 and so far I have around 10 comics finished. Does anybody have any idea how much memory I would need? I don’t need a mailbox on the website as far as I know, but would this be helpful?

I’ve looked on 123-reg.co.uk but I’m still a bit baffled.
Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Yes, you need both a domain name and hosting.

I recommend one of these: http://www.tophostingpicks.com

iPage has the best offer right now.
Their standard price is £59.40/year (£4.95) but they have
a promotion currently, one year of hosting for £23.88.

Their plan includes:

Unlimited disk space
Unlimited bandwidth
Free domain name
(supports .co.uk or .com and a lot more)

Price: £23.88/year (£1.99)

They have one of the most popular hosting platforms, which currently hosts over a million websites. They’re also one of the oldest hosting companies, founded in 1998.

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How do I change my nameserver to my new dedicated hoster?

March 30, 2010 123 hosting 2 Comments

I am finally moving my (usually) high-traffic site from its inadequate hosting to a dedicated server.

Having already replicated the site at the new server, I now guess it would be prudent to transfer domain management and nameserving over to Fasthosts too (they are renting me the dedicated server). My current hosting is with 123, and they hold the domain record too.

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW ALL THIS WORKS !!!! :S

C-NAMES, domain records, I am clueless. They are meaningless words to me. I have Plesk V9 on the new server but it comes with no instructions for the uninitiated regarding DNS records. I am no Linux/hosting nerd.

I have one successful site that I want to move to its own server, and that’s it. I would rather not have a successful site offline for weeks while I buy/read books and so I want to get this right first time.

Does anyone know of a web-guide for this process that is aimed at someone of my limited capabilities?

Thanks in advance!

I suggest you email the domain registrar and ask them to set the nameservers for you.

"If you need to re-set the nameservers for hosting with Fasthosts, set them to:

1st nameserver: ns1.livedns.co.uk
2nd nameserver: ns2.livedns.co.uk
3rd nameserver: ns3.livedns.co.uk"

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How can I set up a domain redirect for a WordPress blog?

March 27, 2010 123 hosting 3 Comments

A company has 2 different servers – one PHP and another ASP with several domains hosted on each. WordPress requires PHP to run, so only domains that are on the PHP server can have a blog and those on ASP will not run WP.

Our solution was to use redirects. For example ASP is hosting 123.com and PHP is hosting 456.com. Can we create a directory and a blog under 456.com/blog and direct it to 123.com so that when people go to 123.com/blog, it will pull up a blog hosted on 456.com/blog but keep the URL as 123.com/blog?

This is difficult to explain, but I hope you guys can help. Maybe there are better solutions out there? Thank you!

Use a rewrite rule (http://www.iis.net/expand/URLRewrite ) in the IIS server to redirect to the same page in the PHP site. Then use permlinks to point to 123.com. It’s cludgy, clumsy and there’s no reason for it, but it would work. (The right way to do it is to install PHP on the IIS site, 123.com, and run Wordpress on the server you want it to appear to be on.)

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Any reliable alternatives to PowWeb hosting?

March 26, 2010 123 hosting 3 Comments

I’ve been having major problems over the past few months with Powweb’s MySQL databases and hosting in general. It’s actually driving me nuts as I could be potentially losing clients.

Anyone know of a reputable, business hosting that is at least 99% reliable i.e. Major websites may use.

I’ve read reviews of 123-reg, 1and1 and experienced fasthosts which I’m really not into. So maybe any corporate ones that are reasonably priced?

My main interests are RELIABLE MySQL, number of domains allowed to be hosted, at least 50 email accounts, high bandwith and large space. Budget is at max £150 per year.

Thanks!

I use godaddy hosting. Personal experience has been perfect for my needs. I host 2 sites on the one account at the moment with a 3rd being launched end of this summer.
Phone support is perfect but email support is a little slow.
Price plans are available on this link

http://www.godaddy.com/Hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=8971

If you need to host multiple sites then you will need the delux plan or the unlimited plan.

I have used Just Host in the past however i had some issues with them and their support would not understand the issue so i moved to Godaddy.

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How to setup DNS settings (such as MX, A, CNAME, TXT)?

March 25, 2010 123 hosting 2 Comments

I have a domain (.co.uk) with 123-reg
The content is hosted by arhoster.com

Form the 123-reg panel, I have done the following :
-Changed the 2 DSN names to the ARHOSTER names

But what do I need to do for the following (if anything) :
- MX Records (is it email ?)
- CNAME
- A
- TXT

I want everything (mail, content, etc..) to be managed by ARHOSTER, apart from the domain registration.

Thank you.

MX *is* email. You have to provide a valid DNS name that is your mail server (not an IP address).

You don’t need a CNAME record.
You don’t need a TXT record (unless your provider says you do for SPF)

The A records point a name to a number…so you might need an "A" record to point "www.yourdomain.co.uk" to the IP address you want it to point to.

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did the below coding is only for local host?

March 24, 2010 123 hosting 1 Comment

$host="localhost";
$user="root";
$pass="123";
$dbname = "aww";
$db=mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass) or
die("Could not connect to Central server!");
mysql_select_db($dbname,$db) or
die("Could not select database!");
will it works for the webserver if i gave the original server name and password

nope its for web too, unless your server have different mysql server name.

Try changing the username, password, and dbname, and keep other as it is.

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