Welcome to Media317. Media317 is committed to providing reliable and affordable web hosting services with top notch service. Whether you are looking for personal web site hosting or to start your own hosting company Media317 is the right choice for you.
Please go through following documentation before using services of Media317.
We assume that you have purchased a hosting plan and received our welcome email with your account logins and DNS information.
If you have not received welcome email with logins please contact our support immediately.
Once you go through following steps you can easily setup your site with Media317.
STEP 1: POINT YOUR DOMAIN DNS TO OUR SERVERS ( Change Nameservers )
Before pointing your domain DNS to our servers, You need to collect Primary Name server and Secondary Name server address provided in your hosting plan welcome email ( Transfer Domain Section )
Then Select below desired option to update domain DNS.
OPTION 1 : DOMAINS REGISTERED WITH Media317
If you registered your domain with Media317 and purchased a hosting plan your nameservers have already been set.
OPTION 2 : DOMAINS NOT REGISTERED WITH Media317 BUT HOSTING WITH Media317.
You need to update your domain DNS at your registrar site. Please contact your domain registrar and give DNS information provided in your welcome email so that your registrar can update DNS on your domain.
Note: You need to wait 24-48 hrs for your domain DNS info propagation.
STEP 2 : ACCESSING SITE CONTROL PANEL ( Cpanel )
Make sure that your updated domain DNS and propagated as per Step 1 before proceeding further. You can access your domain cpanel using following different URL's
To publish your website (upload the files from your local computer) to your account/server, you need to use some sort of uploading software. There are many options available. Here are a few options:
Before uploading through your FTP software requires following details.
-- FTP SERVER NAME : ftp.yoursite.com or Server IP ( located in the welcome email ) -- USERNAME : Your control panel username -- PASSWORD : Your password -- UPLOAD DIRECTORY : public_html
Your home page must be placed in the "public_html" directory and must be named "index.htm" or index.html. This is the file that the server looks for when someone types your URL: http://www.yoursite.com in their Web browser.
B) Microsoft FrontPage (http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/default.htm)
If you designed your site Microsoft Front Page you can directly publish using Front page. To upload to your site, you need to know these few things: -- FRONTPAGE SITE : http://www.yoursite.com (See Notes Below) -- FRONTPAGE USERNAME : Your control panel user name -- PASSWORD : Password
*Note: FrontPage will not work until your domain DNS propagated to our server. It may take 24- 48 hrs for full DNS propagation after you update your DNS.
C) Cpanel File Manager
You can also upload files using cpanel File Manager. 1) Login to cpanel ( http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel ) 2) Click on File Manager Icon 3) You can see list of files and folders. 4) Click on "public_html" folder icon to open files in that folder. 5) Upload files to that folder using "upload files" link
