TOAST.net Knowledge Base

Each account comes with access to a web based control panel. This utility allows you to manage your account through your web browser. Your control panel is accessible at: http://www.toast.net/services/hosting/manage.asp.

Domain: yourdomain.com
Password: yourpassword

Once logged into Plesk, you will find many powerful tools to use for your domain name and hosting account. Each function of Plesk comes with its own detailed help menu.

Learn more about the Plesk CP watching our online tutorials.

Your email accounts are managed through the Plesk control panel. To create your new email accounts, you first need to log in to Plesk with your login information. Then click on "Mail" under the Services group. This function allows you to create, delete, forward and change the passwords of email accounts.

To configure your email program (i.e. MS Outlook, Netscape Communicator, Eudora) to receive your email, use the following information, substituting your domain name for "yourdomain.com". For detailed instructions click here.

Microsoft FrontPage Instructions:

Once you have finished editing and saving your website using FrontPage, you can publish it to the web server using these steps:

1. On the top menu, go to "File" and choose "Publish Web".
2. Publish to http://www.domain.com, replacing "domain.com" with your domain name.
3. When prompted, enter the username and password to your website. The username is contained in the account information e-mail we sent to you.

FTP Instructions:

You will need FTP software. We recommend using the FTP client built into Internet Explorer 5.0 and above. Type the URL below into the address bar and it will prompt you for your password.

ftp://your-domain-name.com@<ipaddress>
The IP Address can be found in your setup information available from My Account.

To configure your FTP client (CuteFTP or WS_FTP) use the information below:

Host Name/Address: <ip address>
The IP Address can be found in your setup information available from My Account.
User Name: <your-username>
Password: <your-password>

You'll want to upload your web site into the "httpdocs" directory. The other directories are for internal use and cannot be accessed by visitors to your site. Note: you will need to put CGI scripts into your "cgi-bin" directory and not the httpdocs directory.

Once DNS propagates your website will be available for viewing. If you are transferring a domain to our servers and wish to upload and preview your site before DNS propagation, our Site Preview feature allows you to do so.

Login to the Plesk Control Panel; once logged in click Site Preview from the Hosting group.

Links using absolute URLs will not work, because DNS has not propagated. For example:

This link will not work.
<a href="http://yourname.com/images/yourimage.gif" mce_href="http://yourname.com/images/yourimage.gif">

Relative URLs, however, will work properly.

This link will work.
<a href="images/yourimage.gif" mce_href="images/yourimage.gif">

At this point, your domain name resides on our name servers. The next step is for the entire Internet to recognize the location of your domain name. This process is called DNS propagation, and it typically takes 24 - 48 hours for all of the DNS tables on the Internet to be updated. You may not be able to view your website before this process is complete.

You will need to contact your "Domain Name Registrar" to complete the DNS modification for your domain name.

You will need to point your existing domain to these DNS servers:

• Primary: ns1.toast.net
• Secondary: ns2.toast.net
• Tertiary: ns3.toast.net

For answers to any additional questions, please contact support at support@toast.net or call 419-292-2200 (toll free: 1-888-862-7863).