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I have built a new website to replace my dads old one, how do i upload it?

  • Hi there My dad's family business has an really bad website (done by yell, years ago) which he wants to replace, so i have designed one using web easy 8 which is ready to go. what do i do know? my dad pays for the domain (every two years to yell i think), when i spoke to yell they started saying that if it is their domain name, even though he pays for it he does not have the right to upload a website that they have not designed and he must pay them. alternatively, pay the fee they want each month and give them the website i have built and they will upload it. but either way he is paying a fortune for someone to take responsibility for building him another website. What i have built is perfectly usable (and miles better than what they built originally), is 11 pages, all linked together. So my question is: If my dad pays for the domain, does he have the right to upload whatever he wants? does he have to use / go through yell? or can he simply get the code and upload the site? I keep trying to talk to yell and everytime i do they just try to sell me their web building package. Any and all advice would be really helpful as this is the first time i have got involved in this and feel yell are just trying to squeeze more money out of a small family business. Thanks in Advance Craig

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    I would never recommend GoDaddy or Yahoo for hosting. Arvixe is the least expensive I've ever found. I'm an Internet Marketer and make my living from the net soooo. For hosting, you always want to go with a Linux server instead of a windows server. GoDaddy is windows, Arvixe is Linux. A Linux server will use cpanel and normally will let you have all the tools you need for one fee. GoDaddy sells you a minimum then upsells you the rest of the tools you need. To upload your website isn't hard. You said 11 pages. I dunno what a Yell is since I build my sites by hand but the free and easy way is with filezilla. Install filezilla, fire it up. At the top will be boxes asking for your domain name/url, your user name and password. Just fill in those three blanks and connect to your server. The right hand pane will allow you to browse the folders on your server. You want to browse to your public_html folder. A fresh public_html will only have one folder in it that is named cgi-bin. You will upload your graphics folder and html pages to here by browsing to them in the left hand pane, right clicking and selecting upload. [Note - don't upload to the cgi-bin, upload next to it so everything lies next to the cgi-bin.] It isn't hard but for the inexperienced, it seems like rocket science. Hopefully you have everything set so that your links aren't broken after uploading. Since this is your dads business, I'd encourage you to educate yourself on having an online business since most folks nowadays go to the net instead of the phone book. Go to www.website-tonight.org and check it out. It's free and there are no gimmicks.

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I think he've the right.

If you bought a whole package (site design, hosting, domain) through Yell, then the domain is probably registered in their name. It's a nasty tactic, but a lot of companies do it (I don't). Since the domain is 'theirs', they can point it to their hosting and charge you a ridiculous fee if you want to take the domain away. Since it's pointing at their hosting, they can choose to only host sites they've made, and refuse to let you upload your site. Your best bet is to try and get your domain off them. Or, if it's a small business, your site isn't too busy, and it's not high-up in Google, just buy a new domain and cancel the old one. It will be a lot more painless. If you go this route: - Buy the domain from a proper domain registrar. If you're in the UK, use 123-reg. As a professional web developer I've registered hundreds of domains with them and they're great. - Buy hosting from a good host. I do hosting myself, but I don't want to recommend my own hosting because that's a bit sleazy. Before I started my own host I used a host called MeirHosting ( http://www.meirhosting.net ) - they really are good. - Point the domain you bought in step 1 to the hosting you bought in step 2 using name servers. All you have to do is tell your hosting to use the domain, then point your domain to the host's nameservers. Any good host will help you do this.

dont use yell services any more, switch to godaddy.com or yahoo.com for hosting websites.

He needs to apply to another domain registrar (try eurodns.com) to take on the domaind. They legally can not stop him doing this, but may make it difficult. He can approach th top level registrar if they get difficult, but that depends on the actual top level domain (.com or .co.uk etc) NEVER deal with such a restrictive company. He may be able to get web space from the ISP, they normally allow this, and check with them if they allow FTP uploads. If not there are hundreds of free hosting companies out there, find one allowing FTP. You can then point the eurodns DNS records at the address of that host. Or any other domain registrar, but currently eurodns seem very good on prices and are very efficient and reliable. In a last resort, since the old site is not generating business, he could just register a new domain name through eurodns and start from there, gradually using the new domain email address to let his customers know he is changing it over, say, a year. Then finally dump Yell. They are not good.

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