Support
Once you sign
up for web hosting, you will receive a welcome e-mail pointing you to this manual.
If you browse through this support manual you should find all the details and
explanations you will need to get your domain up and running. Start with Account
Overview and Control
Panel Overview.
As a
general rule, we do not provide technical support for third-party scripts and
programs. It is your responsibility to install and configure any
programs you may decide to run on your domain. We will try our best to answer
your questions when they arise; but for the most part you should plan to contact
the creator of the script for technical support.
It
is a violation of our policies to run chats and other such programs that may consume
more than 20% of the server's resources. If you require a domain without
restrictions, please contact
us for a dedicated hosting solutions. Please read our policies
and procedures.
Billing Support
All billing is
handled in-house by our billing department. If you have any questions regarding
your account, please contact us.
Account Deactivations
There are only
3 reasons we deactivate accounts. 1) Non-payment, 2) Spamming violations, and
3) Non-compliance of our policies.
We must ask
all of our clients to understand that just as they must take measures to protect
their business, so must we. Our Policies and Guidelines were developed to protect
both our company and clients residing on our servers.
You will receiving
a warning before your account becomes deactivated. If you do not rectify
the situation, your account will be deactivated and you will face a $100.00 reactivation
fee or may be asked to prepay for your account. If your account is deactivated
three times, you will be asked to locate to a different hosting service.
If your account
has been deactivated due to spamming violations, you will not have the opportunity
to reactivate your account on our servers. We have a strict non-spamming
contract with our backbone providers and such deactivations are out of our control.
All spamming violations are deactivated without option of reactivation. This is
a non-negotiable rule.
Down Time
Once you've
established an internet connection through your PC, your dial-up travels through
several points before the actual login to our servers. If there are any problems,
within or at any of those points, it will prevent you from logging into your account.
This, obviously, is out of our control.
However, in
the event that one of our servers does go down, we can assure you that we will
be aware of it before you are, and will be working diligently to restore service.
You are more than welcome to contact us, but don't be overly anxious if we do
not respond immediately - it only means that our hands are full at the moment,
correcting the problem.
It does happen
now and then, but we are fortunate to have a wonderful connection through the
Network Operations Center housing our servers, and can realistically boast a better
than 99% uptime average!
Email
If, in an unusal
case, our servers are down or if you are experiencing problems connecting to your
account for other reasons not involved with our servers, your email is not going
to work either.
Before contacting
Technical Support, be sure to walk through the setup of your email program to
ensure that you have the correct settings. See Mail
Manager and Email
Software support pages, to the left.
Other problems
might be due to a recent change of your password. Changing passwords for your
email, and changing passwords for your Control Panel and FTP client are done in
separate areas, so if you've done one but not the other, this may be your problem.
Please refer to the Changing Passwords section
of our manual for instructions and details.
If you have
checked your settings and verified that it is not a password problem, submit the
Technical Support Request Form and we
will handle your request promptly.