Welcome to ecHOSTS! You have made a great choice and we want to help you get up and running as quickly as possible.
Once you purcahse any ecHOST'S handpicked hosting packages, soon you will be notified by Welcome mail with DNS and basic settings.
If you have not received the welcome email within 6 hrs of signing up please contact our support.
Settingup your website with ecHOSTS is really easy as 1,2,3...
STEP 1 : POINT YOUR DOMAIN DNS TO ecHOST'S DNS ( TRANSFER DNS )
Note the primary name server and secondary name server address provided in your welcome email and change the Domain pointing from Domain Registrar panel.
Then select the desired option as listed below to update domain DNS.
OPTION 1 : DOMAINS REGISTERED WITH ecHOSTS.com
If you registered your domain with ecHOSTS.com and purchased hosting plan you can update your domain DNS to our servers using below steps.
Login to our Client Area at https://my.echosts.com/ with your domain name and password which you created with your order.
1) Click on "My Domain" link TAB
2) Then click "View Details"
3) There under Nameservers enter your primary and secondary nameservers.
For Example :
ns1.echosts.com
ns2.echosts.com
4) Then click on the "Save Changes" button.
Note: You need to wait 24-48 hrs for your domain DNS info propagation.
After 48 hrs only you can see your site and send/receive emails.
OPTION 2 : DOMAINS NOT REGISTERED WITH ecHOSTS.com, BUT HOSTING WITH ecHOSTS.com
You need to update your domain DNS at your registrar site. Please contact your domain registrar and give DNS information provided in hosting welcome email. So that your registrar can update DNS on your domain.
You can find out who is your domain registrar and where your domain DNS pointing, from http://www.xwhois.com
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
http://www.ecHOSTS.com/cpanel
http://ecHOSTS.com:2082
https://ecHOSTS.com:2083
You will be asked to enter username and password which you can find in your welcome email under "ACCESSING YOUR SERVER" section.
Note: Replace yoursite.com with your actual domain name.
Once you login to control panel you can create email accounts, sub domains and MySql Databases etc.
To learn about cpanel features please see visual tutorials at http://www.ecHOSTS.com/tutorials.html
STEP 3 : UPLOADING FILES TO YOUR WEBSITE
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:
A ) FTP Client (WS_FTP, CuteFTP, SmartFTP )
You can download and install on your computer from following links
http://www.ipswitch.com/, http://www.cuteftp.com/products/cuteftp/index.shtml or http://smartftp.com
Before uploading through your FTP software requires following details.
-- FTP SERVER NAME : ftp.yoursite.com or Server IP ( you can find it in the welcome email )
-- USERNAME : Your control panel username
-- PASSWORD : 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) BaseKit SiteBuilder
BaseKit is the world's most flexible website builder. It allows you to create professional websites
from within your browser in just a few clicks. You don't need any technical skills, and there are
loads of templates and widgets to get you started. Click "Setup SiteBuilder" to get started!
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
For any further help open helpdesk ticket at https://echosts.com/portal/contact.php or send an email to support@ecHOSTS.com
