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Hello

Just signed up for some web space, just out of intrest they state it take 3 days to make live, and at the moment am getting the "White page can not be found" am I being a little haste? also what FTP program ideally freebee program are you peeps using?

regards

TopiToo

A decent web hosting company should make your account available (or live) pretty much immediately.

They should also provide you with a URL to temporarily access your website. Something like http://www.hostingcompanyname.co.uk/~yoursitename

They should also provide you with FTP login details that work straight away.

It can take up to 3 days for a new domain name registration to "point" to the right place on your hosts servers. This process is called DNS propagation.

For an FTP program I use CuteFTP (http://www.cuteftp.com). It has a free evaluation version you can use. To be honest I can't remember what the restrictions with this are as it was so long ago that I actually decided to pay the USD30 to licence it! I've also used WSFTP which is pretty good.

I used to use CuteFTP, but now use smart

http://www.smartftp.com/

if you don't register after 90 days you get a nag screen appear for 10 seconds each time you launch it between 9 to 5.


The DNS bit is probably what they're waiting on, and some will see it sooner than others...

Hello

Thanks for the advice just checked and it is live already
using LeechFTP.

regards

TopiToo