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What is web hosting and why do I need it?

In order to have a web site on the internet you first need to have a web server. Unfortunately, owning a Web server can be very costly and requires technical expertise that most businesses don’t have.

We provide the equipment and other technical resources that you need without the headaches that come when you have to do it yourself.

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How do I transfer files to my web site?

You can publish your website using our Online Website Builder.

You can also use your own ftp programme or software such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver.

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Do I need FrontPage extensions?

You only need them if you are using Microsoft FrontPage to design your website. There is no extra cost for them.

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Do you support FrontPage?

Yes we do, you can install FrontPage extensions through the control panel.

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I set up an MX record and my mail doesn’t work, why?

The most common mistake is to set up an MX record, without setting up an IP address for the mail host. (IE: mail.example.com is an MX record for example.com, but has no IP address) Our system tries to alert you to this before it happens.
Another very frequent mistake is to point an MX record to a mail server that doesn’t route mail for the domain yet, or keeps a separate user database for each destination domain.
Before reaching the conclusion that DNS is responsible for your mail routing issues, it’s a good idea to test your mail server, independently of the DNS.

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What is a CNAME record?

CNAME” records, short for “Canonical Name”, create an alias from a domain name to another. You could create an alias from “yahoo.mydomain.com” to “www.yahoo.com”, and every reference to “yahoo.mydomain.com” would go to the other location, regardless how yahoo changed their IP addresses! Be careful, however; CNAMEs won’t work everywhere. If you create an MX record, and the name used for the mail server was defined using a CNAME, you might lose e-mail!

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What is an MX record?

“MX” (”Mail eXchanger”) records are used to specify what server on the Internet is running e-mail software that is configured to handle e-mail for your domain. If you want your ISP to handle routing the e-mail for your domain to you, you need to specify the domain name or IP address of your ISP’s mail server. In addition, you can specify the rank of each mail server when you have more than one. Make sure your ISP knows that you’re using their servers to route your domain’s email, or all your e-mail will “return to sender”!

If you want to use our servers instead of your ISP’s, don’t specify any “MX” records, just configure our simple MailForward service!

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