1.
Place your hosting order at http://TeamMediaOnline.com/order.html
. Make sure you have made your plan selection.. You can view
and compare plans at http://TeamMediaOnline.com/hosting.php .
2. New Domain or Existing? If you need a domain just follow
the instructions during the order process to purchase one.
Remember that Domain orders and hosting orders are independent
of each other. New domain customers can skip to #4. Existing
domain name holders go to #3.
3. Existing
Domain Customers. This process is the most detailed one of
all. There are so many domain companies, and so many different
rules in changing the information that there is only one place
to start...at the beginning. To get your existing domain to
work with our hosting server requires one simple change. You
must set your DNS (Domain Name Servers) to TeamMediaOnline.com's.
Here is our information:
When you
set your Domain Name to our Name Servers it will allow you
to use our hosting service. In most cases ONLY the owner of
the domain can make this type of change and NOT TeamMediaOnline.com.
Remember, you are NOT transferring your domain to our registration
service but rather you are updating the Domain Record to reflect
your new web host's name servers. Click
here to see how to change the DNS at your Registrar. DO NOT
change your DNS until you have completed steps 4 through 6.
This will help you to have a seamless transition from your
existing host.
4. Once you completed the hosting order process you will receive
your account information within 10 to 20 minutes. At that
point you will be ready to start uploading your files via
your IP address. Since your domain name will not be ready
for at least 24 hours TeamMediaOnline.com provides you with
a dedicated IP address so that you can begin to upload you
website immediately.
5. To upload your website you have many choices. You can choose
FTP, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, or many other products. You can
view our knowledgebase on various methods of uploading at
http://TeamMediaOnline.com/support.html . Click the Knowledgebase
option. When you initially log into your account you will
see a directory listing similar to the following:
yourdomain-logs
yourdomain-mail
yourdomain-secure
yourdomain-www
www
-or-
mail
public_ftp
public_html
tmp
www
DO NOT
DELETE OR RENAME any of these directories. These directories
are automatically setup by the system and required in order
for your account to function. Deleting or renaming any of
them will cause fatal errors that can only be repaired by
deleting and resetting your account.
Of these
directories, the www directory is the only one you will use.
This is the directory where you will upload your web pages
and create other subdirectories that will pertain to your
web site. Your pages WILL NOT be viewable on a web browser
unless they are uploaded to this directory.
When you
initially enter your www directory, you will see a directory/file
listing similar to the following:
cgi-bin:
Where all your cgi-scripts are located (Sometime referred
to as Personal cgi-bin)
stats: Location of your statistical program
index.html: The basic under construction page. This is the
default page for your site. When you create a new design your
first page will need to be named index.html.
Again,
DO NOT DELETE OR RENAME any of the directories within this
folder. These are directories created by the system and are
required in order for your account to function.
As you
add options from your Control Panel the system will automatically
create other directories within this area. Any files created
by these programs are there for a particular purpose and should
not be deleted.
6. Once
you have uploaded your website you will want to test it to
make sure you have reference all of the images and information
correctly. Typically the most common problem we see is that
images don't appear on the site becasue of incorrect html
coding.
7. Once you have uploaded and tested your website you can
now cancel your old hosting account if applicable. This whole
process can be done within a 24 hour period if followed in
order.
