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| 1. How do I Start
and How can I move my sites to you?
Following
four simple steps are required to get started with us.
- Sign up
- Sign up on the Order page of
www.malaysianhosting.net
Write down your username and password in a safe place.
- Add
domain - By
using your new username and password, log-on to the
members page on www.malaysianhosting.net. Follow the
user friendly menu and add your domains to your account.
- Receive
instructions
- After adding the domain to your
account, please give us some time to set up your web
site. It is usually 5 to 6 hours during business hours
(5am to 3pm GMT 6 days). If add domain submissions
are received after business hour, then sites are set
up next day morning. After setting up each site, we
will send you an email with detail instructions on
FTP, email management etc.
- Modify
DNS -
If you registered the domain through any company other
than through us, then you have to modify name server
information so that the DNS start pointing towards
our name server. Most of the time, you will be able
to make this change online by going to the web site
of your registration service providing company. Any
change in DNS need to be propagated over the internet
and this time could be from 6 hrs to 48 hrs. No one
has control on this.
- FTP
- When DNS propagation is complete,
if you type your domain on any browser, you will see
your site displaying "this site is under construction
.....". At this time you can upload your files by
following our FTP instructions. At the same time you
should be able to create your email accounts also.
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2. My
site is being hosted by another provider, how can I move
the site to you without any down time (Pre-Publishing)?
When
you have a web site which is already up and running
with another provider, follow the procedure below:
- Submit the domain
on the "Add Domain" page of
www.malaysianhosting.net
- We will set up the
site on our server and allocate a temporary IP address.
- We will send you
an email with the IP address and procedure to upload
with FTP.
- Upload your files
according to this procedure.
- Check and make sure
everything is working fine. At this stage you can
access your site by typing the IP address only.
- Modify the DNS information so
that your domain starts pointing towards our "Name
Server". It takes about 24 to 48 hours for this information
to be propagated over the Internet. During this time,
when someone types your domain name in their browser,
he/she will see
your site either on the previous
server or on our server. At the end of this propagation
period, your site will be available only from our
server. At this point, you may notify your previous
provider to delete the site from their server.
Note: If, you require
Pre-Publishing please mention it in the features
or additional request while adding the domain to
your Emirates Hosting account through the add domain
form.
Click
here for
our name server information.
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| 3. How
do I avoid email downtime?
To
avoid email downtime the following steps need to be
taken before modifying the DNS:
- Set all emails on
the old server to auto-forward to a third party email
address or ISP provided email address.
- We will create a
"catchall" email on the new server (our server) and
set it to auto-forward to the same third party email
address or ISP provided email address.
- Modify your DNS
information and propagation will begin. During this
propagation period emails will either go to the old
server or to the new server. In both the cases, emails
will be instantly forwarded to the third party email
address or ISP provided email address.
- At the end of propagation
period, you may cancel the email forwarding as well
as create more POP email accounts on the new server.
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| 4. What
type of server will my site be hosted on, Unix or Windows
2000?
Malaysian Hosting hosts
web sites on both the Unix and Windows 2000 platforms.
If you require that your site be set up specifically
on one or the other, please indicate this in the additional
request section of our Add Domain form. |
5. How
do I administer email accounts?
There are 2
ways to administer your email accounts depending on
which platform you are hosted on. Please click
here for instructions. |
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6. How
many POP3 accounts can I have with one account?
Each POP3 account
must have a minimum of 1MB of space allocated to it.
ie. with 100MB of space you can have maximum of 100
POP3 accounts. If your domain is on Unix server with
FrontPage extensions the minimum size for each email
(user) will be 3MB. |
7. Once I sign up will I get technical
support for FTP, Email, etc?
Most of the
FTP and email related questions are answered in the
web
tutorials section of our
support page. If you need additional help please
email
the question to us. Our support team will be more than
happy to help you. |
8. Which mode
of support do you prefer, email or telephone?
It has been
proved that email support is more effective, because
all problems are documented and can be tracked easily.
Our response time for emails is typically 5-6 business
hours. |
9. How do I sign up for an
Malaysian
Hosting account?
It is very
simple to sign up for an Emirates Hosting account. Fill
out our online Order form and submit it. We will
set up your account immediately. You can go to the Add
Domain form and start adding domains to your account
immediately after signing up for an Malaysian Hosting
account. |
10.
How do I add domains to my Malaysian Hosting account?
Once
you sign up online for an Malaysian Hosting account,
you can log on to the Members page and submit
your domains. You can add domains immediately after
signing up for an Malaysian Hosting account. |
11. How long will it take
for my site to be set up on your servers after submitting
it through the Add Domain form?
We will set
up your site within 3-4 business hours and send you
a confirmation by email. |
12.
Why am I not able to see my web site even after 10-12
hours?
If you have modified
the Name Servers for your domain or signed up
for a New Domain, it will take 24-48 hours for
you to be able to see your site on our servers. The
reason for this delay is that when name servers are
modified or a new domain is registered, this information
has to be propagated across the Internet before you
will be able to see the changes. |
13.
Can I have my own name servers for my domain?
Yes
you can have your own name servers for your domain.
We can register and maintain your name server for you.
Your name servers will be ns1.yourdomain.com
and ns2.yourdomain.com with two unique IP
addresses. yourdomain.com will be your domain name.
All of your client's domains will show your name server
information when searched for through any WHOIS search.
The charge for this service is 100$ US per year and
you will have to transfer your domain to us. |
14.
Can my site be set up so that www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com
both point to the same web site?
By default
www.domain.com and domain.com will point to the same
place. |
15.
Do you host international domains?
We host all
domains authorized by ICANN
including all TLDs and country codes. |
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16.
What is the minimum amount of time that I have to sign
up for?
The minimum
time that you can sign up for an Malaysian Hosting account
is 1 Year. |
17.
What is the path to perl?
#!/usr/bin/perl |
18. What
is the path to sendmail?
/usr/sbin/sendmail |
19. Do I get
telnet access?
No, we do not
provide telnet access to our servers. |
20.
Will I be able to change and update my web pages on a
regular basis?
Yes, you
will be able to update your web page at any time using
FTP or FrontPage. There are no additional charges for
updating your web site, so you can update it as often
as you like. If you need more information on how to
do this, see the web
tutorials section
of our support page for instructions. |
21.
How do I register a domain?
Please see
our site at
www.malaysianhosting.net
for domain registration and pricing information. |
22. How much does additional
disk space cost?
Please
refer our pricing structure at
www.malaysianhosting.net |
23.
Can I get a dialup account with you?
No, we
specialize in web hosting. You will need to get dialup
access through your local ISP. |
24.
Can I use both FrontPage and FTP to upload my web site?
No,
you can not use both FP and FTP. If the FrontPage server
extensions are enabled for your site then please either
only publish the web site with FrontPage or only use
FTP. If you try to use both FrontPage and FTP you will
get permission denied errors while uploading files.
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25. Can I delete my admin user and
recreate it?
No, if you delete your
admin user you will no longer have access to your web
site and we will have to delete and recreate the whole
site. Please make sure that you do not delete the admin
user for your site. |
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