Where do I upload my website files?

Your account has both non-web accessible space and of course your web accessible space. Your user home directory , /home/USERNAME , contains many files used to operate your website. You can create new folders here to store data or information you do not want the world to know about or see. This is a good place to store database connection or other files that contain passwords or critical data. To upload your “homepage” or website materials, the stuff you actually want the world to see, upload that into the “public_html” directory. You can of course create other sub directories and files there as well which will all be web accessible. /public_html – This is where your site files will go /public_ftp – Files for your anonymous FTP /www – same as your public_html directory Warning – Do not delete any pre-existing files or folders you first see in your home...

How do I upload to a sub-domain?

It’s exactly the same as uploading to a regular domain. The only difference is you should put the files in the correct folder for your sub-domain (whatever you set it to be, most likely the name of the sub-domain!). You will need to connect as the user you chose the sub-domain to be under when you set it...

How does the Internet work?

A network is a group of computers that are connected and can communicate with one another. “The Internet” is a worldwide network of computers, connected by TCP/IP, a protocol that all of the computers understand. It’s an agreement about how the computers exchange information. All computers connected to the Internet have an IP address consisting of four numbers separated by periods (for example: 123.123.123.1). To make addresses easier for humans to remember, DNS (domain name service) associates domain names like www.yourdomain.com with the numeric address of the computer where that domain is hosted. When you type in a domain name, your computer requests web page files from the address of the computer where the files are located. These files are sent to your computer, and displayed in your...

How does email work?

So you compose an email on your computer, using an email client like Outlook. You address it to someoneelse@theirdomain.com, and press Send. So what happens next? 1. Your email program sends your mail to the SMTP server where your account is. If you are sending mail to someone else whose mail account is on that server, go to step 7. Otherwise, keep reading. 2. The SMTP server breaks the address someonelse@theirdomain.com into two parts: someone else (the account name) and theirdomain.com (the domain). The SMTP server then contacts a DNS (domain name service)server, and asks for the IP address where theirdomain.com is located. 3. The DNS server sends the address back to the SMTP server. 4. The SMTP server then sends the email message to the SMTP server where theirdomain.com is located. 5. The second SMTP server delivers the email message to someone else’s account on the POP3 or IMAP server. 6. Someone else logs on to their computer and opens their email client. Their email client requests the POP3 or IMAP server to send all email from their account to their computer. 7. If you are sending email to someone whose account resides on the same set of mail servers, the SMTP server will simply direct the mail to the local POP3 or IMAP server, where it will be delivered to the appropriate...