Accessing your account via its URL
If you've just signed up, or 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 bob.com and you user ID is bob , your welcoming email would provide the IP http://IPADDRESS/~bob/ 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 bob
Your Domain is "bob.com" or "bob.net"
Your IP address is "220.22.121.25"
To reach your account via the web, you would call this site as: http://220.22.121.25/~bob/
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.
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