How long does it take to get my domain working?
It usually takes 24-48 hours for a domain to fully propagate to all the name servers in the world.

ADPS website hosting: A Step by Step Guide
Welcome to ADPS Website Hosting. This guide provides a step-by-step overview of how easy it is to set up and manage your business web site and evolve it into a powerful E-Business

Step 1: Sign up for ADPS Web Hosting
Buy an ADPS Web Hosting package to get started fast. While buying your website hosting package you will also buy a domain name for your website. Visit domain name and website hosting sections of the website for more details.

Step 2: Manage your webhosting account:

Now that you have signed up, its time to start managing your hosting account. CPanel provides easy management of all the features that your website has. Take a demo of Cpanel to experience the power packed in your hosting account. Demo link is available on web hosting plan details pages of the website.

Step 3: Set up your email accounts.
Now you should start creating e-mail accounts for yourself, other employees of the firm and for departments. For example joe@yourdomain.com and sales@yourdomain.com You can logon to your cpanel to configure email accounts for your domain name by following easy to use menus and help..

We recommend you use POP clients to reduce disk space requirement. If you only require email solution and not webhosting plans, ADPS has a solution for you. Use the hosting pull-down menu at the top of the page and select "e-mail solutions" option to buy one today.

Step 4: Plan and organize your web site content
Before you stary building your website, it is very important that you plan you website well. The thum rule is to think from your customers perspective and design the layout and flow of your website for more effect.

Step 5: Choose a web site design tool and start building

Your account comes with one click install feature to many powerful website building tools. You get one click install access to power website building tools such as Drupal, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, Siteframe and Xoops with any of your hosting plans.

Once you have signed up for one of our website hosting plans, you can install and configure any of these tools with just one click.

We will send you all the information you need to get started in your welcome email. You will get this mail after we have activated your hosting account. This information includes step-by-step guide to installing and configuring website building tools for your account.

Step 6: Set up password-protected areas

If your business requires it, you can easily set up special password-protected areas of your site using the Password Manager. You can setup directory level userid and passwords to limit users access.
Learn more(This know more will have steps for setting up password protected areas using CPanel)

Now that you\'ve invested time and effort to build a great web site, it\'s time to develop and execute a marketing strategy to ensure that people can find it.

Step 7: Learn from your success and grow

ADPS Web Hosting comes with powerful visitor analysis tools to know more about who is visiting your website and what they are doing after their visits. You can use this goldmine of data to plan changes to enhance the success of your e-business.

Step 8 Add e-commerce capabilities to your site
ADPS hosting account comes with everything you need to sell online from your professional web site.

Step 9 Want more information?

Use our support helpdesk to ask anything you about setting up webshop. You will get a response within couple of business housr.

Step 10: Share your success with others, ask more information.

You have worked hard to succeed. Join our website hostign forums to help others with your learnings or even ask for expert answers from others. Our website hosting forums can be accessed at http://forum.adps-domain.com

How does your 99.9% Uptime Guarantee work?
We guarantee that your site will be up 99.9% of the time we host it. This guarantee includes both network and server failures. If your site isn\'t up 99.9% in any one month we will issue a full refund for the month. Send a mail to support and we will issue a full refund for the month.

What is a subdomain?

        www.domain.com is a domain name. A subdomain is anything that replaces the www in a domain name.forum.adps-domain.com is a subdomain. www.forum.adps-domain.com is not a subdomain.

Do you provide Web Based FTP?

Yes we do. You can upload your files directly from our control panel.