Web Hosting and Pop3 E-mail Help/Questions... Basic questions.

[wjsulliv]

Several deals have been posted in the last several months in the "Hot Deals" Forum regarding web hosting, which ususally comes with a certain number of e-mail accounts. I have a couple of questions:

1) Generally how does this work?
I understand I register my domain somewhere, and then sign up with a website host. The host will provide me with address information about where my pages will be stored. Then I go back to the domain and input that information... Is that correct?

2) How do I link to multiple pages that I am hosting?
I.e. if I have a main page, and then several links to sub-pages, how to I set that up?

3) How do I retrieve my e-mail, just a program like Outlook?

4) If for any reason I someday change the content host, what happens to my e-mails?

Thanks

 

[DaveSimmons]

1) - 2)

They run an FTP server for your domain (ftp.mydomain.com) and each of your
pages is a separate file (index.htm, happy.asp kittens.htm etc.)

You link between pages using HTML commands in your pages, like < a href="/kittens.htm" > meow! < /a >
(you might want to pick up an intro to HTML book, and try using right-click and "view source" to see the HTML pages at a few sites)

3)
Yes, they run POP3 and SMTP mail servers for your domain, and give you
a link to a website that lets you set up accounts

4)
If you change, during the changeover period mail may bounce or be lost because server-1 at foohost.com accepts the mail but then the domain moves to server-2 at barhost.net (you can probably get those last few messages by connecting to server-1 using its 4-number "IP address")