Accessing
your account via its URL
If
you've just signed up, chances are you've begun
the process of a domain transfer to our servers.
In all likelihood, it will take anywhere from 48
to 72 hours for all worldwide DNS records to reflect
you domain name as pointing to our servers. While
everything in our welcoming email refers to the
domain you signed up, we recommended you use the
accompanying "IP" number until you can
verify your domain is actually answering to your
new account on our servers.
Until
such time as your domain is officially answering
to our servers, you can use your new username to
access and setup your web site.
For
example, if your assigned domain was frank.com and
you user ID is frank , your welcoming email would
provide the IP http://IPADDRESS/~frank/ as an option
for accessing your new account.
Again,
it's a great way to test all those features and
make sure everything is functioning smoothly before
launching your web to the world.
Please be aware that php/mysql scripts will not work until the domain has propagated to your hosting account !
Let's
try an example:
Your
username is frank
Your Domain is "frank.com" or "frank.net"
Your IP address is "222.22.22.22"
To
reach your account via the web, you would call this
site as: http://222.22.22.22/~frank/
Don't
forget the ~
before your name!
Check
your welcoming email for the IP number and Username,
which was assigned to your account.
Once
again, when your new DNS settings have propagated
across the worlds DNS servers, you'll be able to
access your domain by calling it the standard way,
which is http://www.yourdomain.com.
