New to Webhosting - Developers

Okay, as many boxes as I'm gonna get, I have a few small questions. Now, I've bought a web hosting account from xenonservers.com and I have access to a cPanel.. As you can tell I'm a bit confused on how to get started. I know HTML and some PHP, but the amount of respiratorys and other items confuse me a bit.. First of all, I'm not sure if theres something I need to do, or if I just payed for the wrong thing. My website name comes out as http://<IP>/~<name> when I was wanting something along the lines of simply just having a <name>.com or something similar to that. I've contacted support but they seem to be clueless, which is kind of stupid.. So I'm either guessing that I need to do blah blah and blah, or I just bought the wrong kind of "webhosting" I was thinking of. The cPanel allows the option of addon/subdomains, but after creating one [b] and [/b] inserting the proper HTML files into their respiratorys, they still come up as an invalid website or something of the matter. Sorry for wasting your precious time, but when 20+ year old people running a web hosting business can't help you its obvious that you must turn to a website of 14-20 year olds! [editline]03:31PM[/editline] I've also tried to learn all this shit myself, but all the tutorials on the cPanel I have is nothing but [i] very [/i] simple point and click stuff, it does not show you much anything really.

Depending on the time frame you did this in your DNS simply might not be updated yet. The DNS server tells your computer which IP a certain domain leads to because computers don't actually communicate via the domains the end user sees but through IPs. DNS servers regularly pull updates so you might have to wait 15-120 minutes for something to happen, maybe even longer.

I've been waiting at least 8-10 hours. So I doubt thats the problem.

Please tell me you bought a domain name...

Well it asked me to choose the domain name that would be associated with my account when registering so I'm pretty sure..

[QUOTE=nick10510;20521501]Well it asked me to choose the domain name that would be associated with my account when registering so I'm pretty sure..[/QUOTE] Oh god, you don't have a domain name, that was for if you HAVE domain name, not buy one. Right, goto name.com and search for the domain name you entered, check to see if its avalible, if it is. BUY IT, if not look for the next best one then ask xenon to change the hosting domain on the account. After that xenonservers should have provided you with their nameservers, within the name.com admin panel, link the domain to your hosting by replacing name.com's nameservers with xenon's. Wait a while and the domain should then be propagated with the hosting, this can take between 15 minutes to 24 hours.

[QUOTE=EDDY TT;20521646]Oh god, you don't have a domain name, that was for if you HAVE domain name, not buy one. Right, goto name.com and search for the domain name you entered, check to see if its avalible, if it is. BUY IT, if not look for the next best one then ask xenon to change the hosting domain on the account. After that xenonservers should have provided you with their nameservers, within the name.com admin panel, link the domain to your hosting by replacing name.com's nameservers with xenon's. Wait a while and the domain should then be propagated with the hosting, this can take between 15 minutes to 24 hours.[/QUOTE] Okay, thanks for the help, I got this confirmed from their support (boy they're late). Sorry for wasting all your times with my assumptions that I get a website name with this..

[QUOTE=nick10510;20518271]Okay, as many boxes as I'm gonna get, I have a few small questions. Now, I've bought a web hosting account from xenonservers.com and I have access to a cPanel.. As you can tell I'm a bit confused on how to get started. I know HTML and some PHP, but the amount of respiratorys and other items confuse me a bit.. First of all, I'm not sure if theres something I need to do, or if I just payed for the wrong thing. My website name comes out as http://<IP>/~<name> when I was wanting something along the lines of simply just having a <name>.com or something similar to that. I've contacted support but they seem to be clueless, which is kind of stupid.. So I'm either guessing that I need to do blah blah and blah, or I just bought the wrong kind of "webhosting" I was thinking of. The cPanel allows the option of addon/subdomains, but after creating one [b] and [/b] inserting the proper HTML files into their respiratorys, they still come up as an invalid website or something of the matter. Sorry for wasting your precious time, but when 20+ year old people running a web hosting business can't help you its obvious that you must turn to a website of 14-20 year olds! [editline]03:31PM[/editline] I've also tried to learn all this shit myself, but all the tutorials on the cPanel I have is nothing but [i] very [/i] simple point and click stuff, it does not show you much anything really.[/QUOTE] Yeah, when mine was in the process of being setup, it was initially http://<ip address>/~<usr>/ Couple hours later, the domain finished updating DNS/Name Servers, and it was finally accessable by -Snip- And on cPanel, if you want any help with it, send me a pm, I'll give ya any assistance I can

Is it possible to get a domain name without buying one?

[QUOTE=The DooD;20589814]Is it possible to get a domain name without buying one?[/QUOTE] A TLD? Most likely not by your definition without completing various surveys/signing up to lovefilm or such. You can get cheap TLDs sometimes if a registrar has coupons available (e.g I bought some .com domains from GoDaddy using the 'BUY2010' coupon which is now expired) Unless you want to go down the route of .co.nr or .co.cc :mufasa:

co.cc isn't bad actually - at least they let you set your own nameservers.

[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;20612199]co.cc isn't bad actually - at least they let you set your own nameservers.[/QUOTE] It's fine for something which is free, other than that these free TLDs look tacky on sites which should have their own proper domains.