Olli Rinne
New Member
I am first-timer with website creating and webhosting and all that goes with it, and now a customer with shared web hosting and a domain from interserver. I am eager to learn much and I have questions about some basic functions. After many articles and tutorials I thought I collect my questions together here. Any answers will be appreciated, in whatever area you feel you could be helpful.
DNS nameservers
- In email I was provided two nameservers. I understand these are to be used when I own a domain somewhere else and want to direct it to my website hosted by interserver. When I log into my interserver and see domain information, there are three DNS servers listed (primary, secondary, tertiary) and they are different from the ones provided in email for me. The ones in email appear to be used nowhere in the domain section at my interserver. What is the difference between these DNS servers listed there and the ones in my email and when to use which ones?
- Eventually I want to create several websites. If I own a domain registered with another host company and set it to direct it to my DNS nameservers and IP address, how do I differentiate which website of mine it will direct into.
- How do I create several wordpress websites if I have only one (or zero) domains registered with interserver itself? When I now installed wordpress from cPanel, it made me choose the domain. What if I have no domains registered with interservers? Besides the one I have purchased, there is another option of a very random domain URL that I can choose. I will then use this one for all the sites I create? And then direct my domains (registered elsewhere) to this address somehow? Am I on the right track even?
- Does wordpress always create a new cPanel database for the site during the install (the fast install from server, not manual install)? If so, can it be changed afterward?
I have made my first wordpress site on my local computer installation and server. Now I want to go through the manual migration (from local to server) to learn the process and the basic elements and controls of webhosting, and there are step-by-step instructions for this. Questions:
- Do I have to have an installation of wordpress at my interserver before this will work, or would this migration process and the website itself work even if wordpress is not installed?
- This process includes creating mySQL database through phpMyAdmin. If I then have many mySQL databases, how do I make this particular one the one that will be used for my website and domain? And if I would do this process for multiple websites, how do I make all of them connect to the right database and so on?
- This process includes moving the files to live server with Filezilla or similar FTP method. What is the right folder to upload them into? Also if I do this for many websites, how do I separate these from one another?
And final thing: If I mess anything up badly, is there a way to restore my whole interserver into its initial, default state, the way it was when I purchased it and had touched nothing? For example I mess up with file transfers and delete or overwrite some essential files or anything other that would become a mess? Probably interserver support would do this for me if needed, but is there a manual way and is it simple or complicated?
Just curious to learn. With my music software I always organize and backup things in a way that if for any reason I have to reformat computer and reinstall everything from scratch, I have a fast and clear path / process to restore all installations and backups. So I at least would like to have the knowledge of how to do a similar process with my hosting and websites. Websites always backed up, then if something messes up everything, I can restore webhost server to "clean slate" and migrate all websites back in, and voila.
Feel free to also link me to any particular tutorial or article you feel would be useful for me. Thank you for any support
DNS nameservers
- In email I was provided two nameservers. I understand these are to be used when I own a domain somewhere else and want to direct it to my website hosted by interserver. When I log into my interserver and see domain information, there are three DNS servers listed (primary, secondary, tertiary) and they are different from the ones provided in email for me. The ones in email appear to be used nowhere in the domain section at my interserver. What is the difference between these DNS servers listed there and the ones in my email and when to use which ones?
- Eventually I want to create several websites. If I own a domain registered with another host company and set it to direct it to my DNS nameservers and IP address, how do I differentiate which website of mine it will direct into.
- How do I create several wordpress websites if I have only one (or zero) domains registered with interserver itself? When I now installed wordpress from cPanel, it made me choose the domain. What if I have no domains registered with interservers? Besides the one I have purchased, there is another option of a very random domain URL that I can choose. I will then use this one for all the sites I create? And then direct my domains (registered elsewhere) to this address somehow? Am I on the right track even?
- Does wordpress always create a new cPanel database for the site during the install (the fast install from server, not manual install)? If so, can it be changed afterward?
I have made my first wordpress site on my local computer installation and server. Now I want to go through the manual migration (from local to server) to learn the process and the basic elements and controls of webhosting, and there are step-by-step instructions for this. Questions:
- Do I have to have an installation of wordpress at my interserver before this will work, or would this migration process and the website itself work even if wordpress is not installed?
- This process includes creating mySQL database through phpMyAdmin. If I then have many mySQL databases, how do I make this particular one the one that will be used for my website and domain? And if I would do this process for multiple websites, how do I make all of them connect to the right database and so on?
- This process includes moving the files to live server with Filezilla or similar FTP method. What is the right folder to upload them into? Also if I do this for many websites, how do I separate these from one another?
And final thing: If I mess anything up badly, is there a way to restore my whole interserver into its initial, default state, the way it was when I purchased it and had touched nothing? For example I mess up with file transfers and delete or overwrite some essential files or anything other that would become a mess? Probably interserver support would do this for me if needed, but is there a manual way and is it simple or complicated?
Just curious to learn. With my music software I always organize and backup things in a way that if for any reason I have to reformat computer and reinstall everything from scratch, I have a fast and clear path / process to restore all installations and backups. So I at least would like to have the knowledge of how to do a similar process with my hosting and websites. Websites always backed up, then if something messes up everything, I can restore webhost server to "clean slate" and migrate all websites back in, and voila.
Feel free to also link me to any particular tutorial or article you feel would be useful for me. Thank you for any support