Website hosting

[joe3k]

I went for 3ix hosting after all. I just have to get my site setup online now (I have the web design completed). I went to change domain name but 123-reg (who I got domain name from) state my domain is not on their nameservers. I guess it must be with the guy who went out of business.

I cannot contact this guy (he never replies since he went bust - not sure if he even gets the e-mails or not anymore). In which case, how do I get the site on-line again?

Previously all I had to do was move it to the guy and upload my web pages. However how will not being able to contact the guy affect me? I'm wondering if I should have choose domain transfer instead? Heck I'm thinking I probably should have just made up a new domain name bought it and and saved the hassle. I think it's too late for that now though?

 

[cmonova]

I went for 3ix hosting after all. I just have to get my site setup online now (I have the web design completed). I went to change domain name but 123-reg (who I got domain name from) state my domain is not on their nameservers. I guess it must be with the guy who went out of business.

I cannot contact this guy (he never replies since he went bust - not sure if he even gets the e-mails or not anymore). In which case, how do I get the site on-line again?

Previously all I had to do was move it to the guy and upload my web pages. However how will not being able to contact the guy affect me? I'm wondering if I should have choose domain transfer instead? Heck I'm thinking I probably should have just made up a new domain name bought it and and saved the hassle. I think it's too late for that now though?

Do a search for the domain name and see where it is registered. If it was thru 123-reg then it will show up. If it is the persons name that could be a problem. If you try domain transfer it will send an authorization to whoever the registrant is to approve it. If that is not you then you will still have the same problem.

 

[joe3k]

I take it you are talking about a WHOIS Lookup? I did this and it states the Registrant is me and the Registrar is indeed 123-Reg. Do I need to send the domain transfer through myself?

 

[joe3k]

Just submitted to change my nameservers to the ones the new hosting company provided. Hopefully this will work. Time will tell (approx 48 hours - I'd say I'll know in 24... hopefully).

 

[JRDtechnet]

nameservers don't take that long anymore, 30mins tops. If not try alt-refreshing the page or flushdns

 

[Methical]

Guess your gonna want a site review to joe3k?

 

[joe3k]

Ok well I uploaded my pages to the public_html folder and waited...
something has changed. Now when I goto www.goodvibeit.co.uk (my site) I'm getting:

Index of /

* cgi-bin/
* images/
* postinfo.html

Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.goodvibeit.co.uk Port 80

What's that all about?

 

[joe3k]

Hmm working on it at moment and getting somewhere. I'd uploaded to root folder thinking by clicking on html folder then uploading, i was uploading to it... what a dumbass! Correcting now.

 

[Methical]

Lol just had a quick browse over your site. Nicely done!

Clean, simple, Web2.0 =)
I'd just keep your fonts (specially in the content areas) consistent. And great use of the <meta> tags

 

[joe3k]

Got all sorted. Thanks for comments Methical. I've also now opened a website review here:
http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?p=40335#post40335