Online Help: Homepage accounts
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About your homepage.
Congratulations! Now that you have your own personal homepage
account with us at Proceed Networks, you can let free your artistic side and
create your own web pages.
Whether your homepage be a corner of the internet you dedicate to
tell people about yourself, or an online store you create to sell your services
or products. Be assured our aims are to provide you with a quality reliable
service of space and speed.
The typical homepage accounts give you 10MB of space for your files
- this is usually more than enough to store very large pages with lots of
content. If you ever to need more space, just get in touch with us. You will
have access to directly upload new pages to your site at any time of day or
night ... just FTP the files to your account, and the changes will apply
instantly.
How to upload files to your account.
Using your favorite FTP client, connect to www.proceed.net using
your username and password, and upload your files into the "public_html"
directory.
A typical FTP session will be as follows:
Connect to www.proceed.net
Login with your username and password
cd public_html (change directory)
put filename.ext (eg, index.html)
When somebody goes to your homepage, if they do not specify a file
(E.g. just http://www.proceed.net/~username/ ) then the page 'index.html' from
your web page will be loaded.
How to change your account password.
Using a telnet program, telnet to www.proceed.net - you will be
prompted for your username and password (you should enter your current
password). Once you have entered these correctly, another prompt will ask you
for the new password - this is the password you wish to change to. You will be
asked to enter it twice. The password changes will apply instantly.
You forgot your password? How to get it re-set.
Send an email to support@proceed.net and state your username and
problem. We will send an email to the email address that you gave us when the
account was set up - we will send a random word in the email ask you to email it
back to us and verify that you wish the password to be changed. We do this just
to confirm that the original email really was sent from the user who the account
belongs to.
In the future, we plan to incorporate an automated verification
routine into our system, but this again will use email and may require you to
respond.
Proceed Networks, Jan 2000
