| | Your Virtual Private Servers configuration
e-mail
The Virtual Private Servers configuration e-mail you receive from
the our Order Processing department contains your new Virtual Private
Servers configuration and login information. The information in this
section includes server type (and services included), your activation
date, the Virtual Private Servers IP address, and temporary domain
name.
A sample server configuration letter is shown below:
From: Order Processing Department
Subject: new account [account id]
Berrett, Rus
SurfUtah.Com
The Virtual Private Servers you ordered on [order date] has now been
configured for your use. Your server was activated on [activation
date], which is the date used to bill you for your first month of
service. This letter contains important information which is necessary
for you to fully utilize your Virtual Private Servers. Please retain a copy of
this letter as you become more familiar with your Virtual Private Servers.
A [server type] has been configured for you with the following
features:
HTML service
E-mail aliasing
.
.
.
XX MB disk space
Options: [installation options]
The following information will be used not only by you as you create
your web site, but also by the Support Staff when you make requests for
support with your Virtual Private Servers. Please become familiar with the
following information:
| Account
ID: | [account
id] |
| Login
Name: | [login
name] |
| Server
Host: | [server
host] |
| Domain
Name: | [domain
name] |
| Temporary: | [temporary
domain name] |
| IP
Address: | [ip
address] |
| E-mail
address: | [contact
e-mail address] |
In addition to your requested domain name, a temporary domain name, [temporary
domain name], has been set on our name servers. You can use this
domain until registration for your permanent domain is complete, but
please be aware that even the temporary domain may not be available for
up to one day.
[domain registration information]
Thank you for ordering your new Virtual Private Servers through us! To get you
started with your Virtual Private Servers, we have created a section on our Web
Site specifically for new customers located at the following URL-
Getting Started Guide
This section of our web site includes a wealth of information that will
help you get started with your Virtual Private Servers. Should you encounter a
problem or if you have a question that you cannot find an answer to on
our web site, please let our Support Staff know.
Warm regards,
Order Processing Department
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Information in the Virtual Private Servers configuration e-mail that you should pay
particular attention to (highlighted in bold in the sample letter above) is
explained below.
| order date | This is the
date you ordered your Virtual Private Servers. |
| activation date | The date that
your Virtual Private Servers was activated. You will see this date on your
monthly billing statement because it is used to determine your first
month's prorated service fee. |
| account id | The account
id of this Virtual Private Servers. This is the ID used internally to identify
your account. |
| login name | You will use
the login name to access your Virtual Private Servers via FTP, telnet, or SSH.
Detailed presentations about how to use FTP, telnet, or SSH to access
your Virtual Private Servers are given in other sections of this Getting Started
section of our web site. |
| server host | This is the
name of the physical server or "fish" which hosts your Virtual Private Servers (we have named of our physical servers after fish). |
| domain name | This is the
domain name you selected to use as the primary domain name for your new
Virtual Private Servers. |
temporary
domain name | The temporary
domain name can be used in place of domain name until such time that
your domain name is registered. This is provided as a free service so
that you can access your Virtual Private Servers while you wait on the
registration authority (e.g. InterNIC) to register your domain name. The
temporary domain name will only work for a period of a few weeks
following the initialization and setup of your Virtual Private Servers. |
| ip address | The IP
address gives the precise Internet address of your Virtual Private Servers. You
will likely never need to use your IP address in part because the Domain
Name System (DNS) handles mapping between host names (which we humans
find convenient) and internet addresses (which computers deal with). |
| domain
registration information | This section
of your configuration letter gives you precise instructions with regard
to your domain registration status. An entire page is devoted to domain
registration in the this Getting Started section of our web site. |
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