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Each Linux plan includes:
Choose Linux if you’re going to use PHP, Perl or CGI scripting. Our Linux accounts use a MySQL database.
Each Windows plan includes:
Choose Windows if you’re going to use APS or ASP.NET. Our Windows hosting customers typically use a SQL Server (MS SQL).
Best-of-Breed routers, firewalls and servers, FREE email addresses & 99.9% uptime guarantee
Unlimited Monthly Bandwidth & Flexible, easy to use control panel (cPanel or Plesk)
1 GB storage MySQL linux databases, NO hidden fees, 24/7 security monitoring and DDoS protection
If you’re new to Linux hosting with cPanel, follow these basic steps to get started.
If you have a hosting account somewhere else, but you want to move it to us (thank you!), we have all of the information you’ll need in this article. However, there are some complexities it doesn’t handle.
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If this all sounds agreeable to you, let’s get started.
After you purchase an account, you’ve got to set it up so we know which domain you plan on using. We have that information in Set up my Web & Classic Hosting account.
If you’re moving your website between hosting accounts within our system, you might need to remove the domain from an existing account or change your old account’s primary domain name.
If you have a copy of your website’s files, you can skip this step.
If you don’t, you’ll need to download a copy of the files from your current hosting company. Because there are so many potential places you could be hosting, there’s no way we can document their procedures. However, we can say that we recommend using an FTP client and provide you documentation about using it (albeit with our system) in Move my website with FTP and FileZilla.
Once you have the files, you need to move them from your local computer to your hosting account (i.e. our servers, which are accessible over the Internet). To do this, we recommend using an FTP client, though there are some other options available to you. For that information, check out Move my cPanel website with FTP and FileZilla.
After you’ve gotten the content on your hosting account, you’ll want to preview it to make sure it looks good. For that information, see Preview your website.
If everything looks good, you can officially make the switch from your old host to us by changing your DNS, which controls which hosting account/server your domain name loads (more info). This process pretty simple, but there are two ways to do it, which have different impacts on your website — namely its email.
Before proceeding, ask you yourself, “Do I care what happens to my current email configuration?“
| Yes | To maintain your current email configuration, you’ll need to change only your domain name’s primary IP address/A record. You can find the IP address using these instructions. Once you have that, you’ll need to change it with the company where your domain name is registered. If that’s through us, you can use our DNS manager (Manage DNS zone files). |
| No | If you don’t care what happens to your current email configuration, you can just change your nameservers (which will change all of your DNS settings). We have all of those instructions in Change nameservers for my domains. |
Either of these changes can take up to 48 hours to display Internet-wide. Once they do — that’s it! You’re done transferring your hosting account.
After you set up your hosting account, you can manage the domains it uses:
| Action | Description |
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| Add Domains | Add domains to your account to either alias your existing website or host entirely independent websites. Web & Classic / cPanel / Plesk / Managed WordPress |
| Remove Domains | Remove domains you added but no longer want to use on this hosting account. This also lets you move domains between hosting accounts. Web & Classic / cPanel / Plesk / Managed WordPress |
| Change Primary Domain | Changing the primary hosted domain lets you host a different website in the root folder of your hosting account. Web & Classic / cPanel / Plesk / Managed WordPress |
| Change Secondary Domains’ Folders | Secondary domains can use folders besides the hosting account’s root as the root for their websites — you can change which folders they use at any time. Web & Classic / cPanel / Plesk |
| Add Subdomain | Subdomains are for websites using anything in front of your domain besides www. For example, in blog.coolexample.com, blog is a subdomain. Web & Classic / cPanel / Plesk |
If you’re new to Windows hosting with Plesk, follow these basic steps to get started.
If your website uses a database to store content (e.g. WordPress, Drupal), you will need your database hostname to connect your site to your database.
To find your database hostname, check your hosting account type, and choose the correct option from the table below.
| Hosting Type | Database hostname |
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| cPanel | Use localhost |
| Plesk | Find each database’s hostname |
| Web & Classic | Find each database’s hostname |
Sometimes you need to preview your website files on your hosting account prior to pointing your domain to your hosting account. You can do this by adding entries to the hosts file on your local computer. Keep in mind that we do not support modifying your system files, you are doing so at your own risk.
| OS | Host File Location |
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| Windows (10, 8, 7, XP, etc.) | c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts |
| Macintosh OS X | /private/etc/hosts |
| Linux | /etc/hosts |
[your hosting account's IP address] [your domain name]
For example:
12.0.0.1 coolexample.com www.coolexample.com
Warning: After you are done previewing your website, and point your domain name to your hosting account, be sure to remove the entry from your hosts file. If you do not remove the entry and change plans or servers in the future, you will not be able to view your site.
If you don’t know the IP address of your hosting account, but you know what kind of hosting you have you can find out your IP address using the links below:
