Web Hosting Guide

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Guide to Jump Start Your E-business with ADPS Hosting Account: Welcome to ADPS Website Hosting. This guide provides a step-by-step overview of how easy it is to set up and manage your business web site and evolve it into a powerful E-Business

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Step 1: Sign up for ADPS Web Hosting
Just buy an ADPS Web Hosting package to get started fast. While buying your website hosting package you will also buy a domain name for your website.  • What is webhosting?         
 • What is a domain name?   

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Useful Information about getting started with your hosting account:

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Your hosting account will have all the features that you will ever need for your website hosting requirements. Some of them are Unlimited Email Accounts and complete control over all the email accounts you create. Very easy to use free web site design tools. You can install these tools with just one click of the mouse on your hosting server. You can easily upload the content to the server. Your account comes with full feature ftp facilities and very easy to use web based file upload facility. If you want to host advanced websites, you get free MySql unlimited databases, perl, CGI, SSI, Cron, Front page extension support for your web site. With our feature rich control panel you can password protect directories, create and manage accounts and do host of other things that a full feature website will ever need. CPanel    provides easy management of all the features that your website has. Take a demo of Cpanel    to experience the power packed in your hosting account. cPanel Demo (use Login name    "demo" and password "demo", close the demo window to return to this page.) If you want to run an e-business, we give you free access to various tools such as shopping carts and full feature e-commerce solutions that you can install and use with your account. There are other lots of cool tools that you can install and use on your site with just one click of the mouse. Check out this instant script list to see what all you can install and use on    your hosting account.

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What all you need to start the Web Hosting Account with ADPS

You need a domain name to access your hosting account. There are two possible cases Case 1. You already have a domain name: In this case just click on the "compare hosting plans" button below, choose the hosting plan of your choice and click on the buy now button. On next pages type your existing domain name in the appropriate box. We will register the domain name of your choice and configure your hosting account. Case 2. You do not have a domain name: You need a domain name to access any hosting account. You can choose to buy a domain name from us at a price of Rs 499 per year. To do this simply click on the "compare hosting plans" button below, choose the hosting plan of your choice and click on the buy now button. On next pages type your existing domain name in the appropriate box. We will register the domain name of your choice and configure your hosting account.

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Additional Important Notes

You can pay by Check, DD, Credit Cards, Debit Cards or Net Banking during the order processing stages.

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We wish you good luck for your Internet venture!

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Step 2: Manage your webhosting account
CPanel provides easy management of all the features that your website has. Take a demo of Cpanel to experience the power packed in your hosting account. cPanel Demo (use Login name "demo" and password "demo")

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Step 3: Set up your email accounts
Next step now is to create email accounts for the users in your company. It is also a good idea to create email for departments such as sales@yourcompany.com or support@yourcompany.com to present that professional face to your customers.
Your cPanel comes with very interfaces to create and configure email accounts.

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Step 4: Plan and organize your web site content
It is very important that you plan you website well. The thumb rule is to think from your customers perspective and design the layout and flow of your website for more effect.

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Step 5: Choose a web site design tool and start building
Your account comes with one click install feature to many powerful website building tools. You get one click install access to power website building tools such as Drupal, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, Siteframe and Xoops with any of your hosting plans. Once you have signed up for one of our website hosting plans, you can install and configure any of these tools with just one click.

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Step 6: Set up password-protected areas
If your business requires it, you can easily set up special password-protected areas of your site using the Password Manager. You can setup directory level userid and passwords to limit users access. Now that you've invested time and effort to build a great web site, it's time to develop and execute a marketing strategy to ensure that people can find it.

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Step 7: Learn from your success and grow
ADPS Web Hosting comes with powerful visitor analysis tools to know more about who is visiting your website and what they are doing after their visits. You can use this goldmine of data to plan changes to enhance the success of your e-business.

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Step 8: Add e-commerce capabilities to your site
ADPS hosting account comes with everything you need to sell online from your professional web site.