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Comprehensive technical guides are currently available for our Hosting services.
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Webhosting Service Details
If you have misplaced your Hosting Welcome Email, which includes credentials for accessing the various components of your hosting package, you may retrieve this information via the following steps:
- Log into your Webnames.ca account with the appropriate username and password.
- Click on My Account
- Click Manage Domains and Services.
- Click the domain name for which you want to add/edit email accounts.
- Click the Hosting tab.
- Click the Resend button beside 'Resend you Hosting details' in the lower part of the page. Some pertinent hosting information is also displayed directly on this page.
Windows NT is the Microsoft Windows personal computer operating system
E-mail
Email accounts can be created through our Email Administration portal. This portal can be accessed in two different ways.
- Directly at http://mailadmin.webnames.ca and login using your existing postmaster@ account.
- Through your
Webnames.ca account:
- Log into your
Webnames.ca account with the appropriate user name and password.
- Click on My
Account.
- Click Manage Domains
and Services.
- Click the domain name
for which you want to add/edit email accounts.
- Click the Email
Settings tab.
- Click the Email
Administration button in the lower section of the page, and then the Enter
button to access the Email Administration portal.
- Click Mail
Accounts.
- From here you can add
new email accounts as well as edit, delete, or update passwords for existing
email accounts.
Email client setup
Please see: http://mailadmin.webnames.ca/MailClients.aspx
Webmail
We offer two webmail interfaces
- http://mail.yourdomain.ca
- http://yourdomain.ca/pronto
FTP Clients
Webnames.ca recommends Filezilla as the free FTP client of choice. Any other standard FTP client will also work. http://filezilla-project.org