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Are you building a new online business and not sure where to start?
Have no fear! We have written this just for you!
Over the following 7 weeks we are going to give you some helpful pointers. No matter what stage your website is at, you will need a high quality web host to serve up your site 24/7 to everyone in the world.
There are many factors that should be considered, and literally thousands of web hosts out there, so we have come up with 7 key tips that we think you should consider, and we will reveal them over the coming weeks. These are the subjects we are going to cover.
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Netcetera provides an easy and condensed approach when it comes to managing your purchased services via the Client Area. Here is how to login:
The Client Area allows you to do the following:
Click the link bellow to log into our client area and start managing your services.
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In today’s ecommerce driven world, having a website which looks good, runs efficiently and remains online a high percentage of the time has never been so important to the success of a business. Thus finding a good web hosting company is a key component to guaranteeing that success.
At Netcetera you can transfer your existing hosting package to us in just a few simple and easy to follow steps, and with a guarantee of no interruption to your website.
Before you start
Ensure that you have a full working copy of your website files, databases, cgi scripts, etc. stored on your computer. Make a record of any email address settings and passwords from your current hosting provider.
Your new Netcetera Account
Order your chosen Netcetera web hosting service using an email address that is on a different domain from the one you are initially wishing to transfer.
Upload your website via FTP address or the online file manager in the control panel, install and configure any databases and scripts. Setup your email accounts.
Test your website with your instant access url. eg http://mynewsite.soon2be.co.uk
The Switch
Contact your Domain registrar and have the DNS information for your domain changed to point at the corresponding Netcetera’s Name Servers:
ns1.nameservers.co.uk
ns2.nameservers.co.uk
In approximately 12-24 hours check your domain name to ensure it is now pointing to your new Netcetera web server.
At that point you should cancel service with your previous host provider. Make sure they remove your domain name from their DNS servers.
Check you EMail Settings
Check the email settings in your email software to make sure your settings work with the new service. This should read something similar to:
Incoming POP3 Server: mail.yourdomain.com
Outgoing (SMTP) Server: mail.yourdomain.com
Login: Your full email address
Relax…
Enjoy reliable, hassle free, supported hosting service with Netcetera and best of luck with your online venture.
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This article will give you a step by step guide on how register a domain name in an existing Netcetera Account following these steps:
1) Login at: https://my.netcetera.co.uk/index.php
2) Click Domain
3) Select: Register a new Domain
4) Insert the domain name and click “Check availability”
5) Add to cart
6) Update the Nameservers
7) Checkout and complete the order
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This article will give you a step by step guide on how to edit DNS Zone Records of your website from your Control Panel. Sign into your Control Panel and follow these steps:
1) Sign in at: https://my.netcetera.co.uk/cp/
Once logged in, click “Domains”. Once in that screen, select the domain you wish to modify the DNS for.
From this screen, you can select the link “Edit DNS zone records”.
From within this page, you can add a new record, or modify and delete existing records:
Deleting a record is straight forward and simply erases the record.
Adding a new record brings you to this page. Note that modifying a record brings you to an identical page, but with the record type locked in place already.
What are these different record types? Here is a synopsis, that I wrote up in the last article.
A records are what translate your website’s URL into an IP address. An example of a A-record would be “www.google.com –> 74.125.224.112″. More info here.
NS records dictate the name servers to be queried. All Netcetera servers have them, generally denoted with “ns1″ and “ns2″ subdomains.
MX records point to the service that handles email traffic. They are also associated with a priority, in case there are more than one.
CNAME records translate one URL into another. For example, “ftp.domain.com –> domain.com” would be practical if your server had both FTP and HTTP functions (like your Netcetera server does). More info here.
TXT records are places to store arbitrary text information. Most commonly used to validate the source of emails and other communications, so that other senders can’t fake their email address to look like someone else. You don’t really need to be touching this, though. More info can be found here.
SPF records. If a domain publishes an SPF record, spammers and phishers are less likely to forge e-mails pretending to be from that domain, since the forged e-mails are more likely to be caught in spam filters which check the SPF record. Therefore, an SPF-protected domain is less attractive to spammers and phishers. Since an SPF-protected domain is less attractive as a spoofed address, it is less likely to be blacklisted by spam filters and so ultimately the legitimate e-mail from the domain is more likely to get through.
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This article will give you a step by step guide on how to schedule automatic backups of your website from your Control Panel. Sign into your Control Panel and follow these steps:
1) Sign in at: https://my.netcetera.co.uk/cp/
2) Click Scheduled Tasks
3) Click Add Scheduled Task
4) In the Task Name box, enter a task name for the backup
5) In the Task Type drop down bar, select Zip Space Files
6) In the Space Folder box, specify the folder that you would like backed up. For example: YourDomain.comwwwroot
7) Select if you want your backups to run Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Once, or in Intervals from the drop down bar. Then, depending on your selection, fill out information to schedule your backup.
8 ) Click Save
Your website backup has now been scheduled!
Every time a backup is taken, the zip file will be placed in the c:hostingspacesYourAccountName folder of your file directory
After the backup is taken, remember to download the zip files and remove the old zip files. This now concludes how to backup your website using Control Panel
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