Hosting Starter Guide
This guide is intended for new UKhost4u users and highlights the major points regarding the use of our service.
Account Activation:

You should have received an account activation notice by email, if you have not received yours, please contact support before continuing. Your account activation notice contains the username, password and hostnames that you will need in order to use our services. Please keep this information safe and have it to hand when contacting us for any reason.

Control Panel :

Central to all our our hosting plans is our control panel, from which you can manage all aspects of your account and view support documentation specific to your hosting plan. The control panel can be found here, login with the username and password from your activation notice, or from https://yourdomain.com/cpanel

FTP:

Initially, no web hosting and FTP are setup. You require to setup these features using your control panel as follows. Log in and select the domain name you wish to activate hosting on (To select it just click on the URL in your main screen). Your next screen will then include a Hosting button, select that button and follow the on screen directions to setup FTP and Front Page access. You can ftp into your site from ftp.yourdomain with your username and password.

All HTML documents which are to be displayed on the Internet must be uploaded to the www folder. Only upload to the other folders if you require to and understand there use.

Web Site:

You can upload your web site files by connecting to the FTP server shown in your account activation notice using an FTP client, log in with your main username and password.

Email:

Initially, no email options are configured. You can create mailboxes and change your email routing options via your control panel.

SMTP SERVER : MAIL.YOURDOMAIN.COM

POP SERVER : MAIL.YOURDOMAIN.COM

Server DNS details:

If you choice to move your domain name across from another provider rather than registering with our self you require our name server details which are as follows:

  • Name Server 1: NS1.ELFIKY.COM (IP: 207.44.184.75)
  • Name Server 2: NS2.ELFIKY.COM (IP: 207.44.185.111) 
 

Getting Help:

Should you encounter difficulties, documentation regarding our service and technical support can mail us at help@elfiky.co.uk

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