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

Will I get adequate Technical support?
Yes, we provide all Technical support to our customers through our support help desk and email. We also have a very comprehensive knowledge base, where you can find answers to most of the questions you may have.  

You can also raise a request for adding a question to the knowledgebase.

Support for Instant PHP Nuke, Instant Chat Rooms, Support Forums?
PHP Nuke

Yes with a click of the mouse you have the ability to create a php nuke site.

Instant Chat Room
Can I create Instant Chat Room using your tools?
Our chatroom creator will allow you to put a chatroom on your site instantly.

Support for forums

You are welcome to install any forum you want with us. You will even be able to install phpBB, Invision, and Yabbse instantly using our control panel.

Are there any hidden costs or transaction charges?
We stand for complete honesty and transparency in business. On our website you will never pay anything more than what you see as display price.

Our no gimmicks one fair price policy states that

1.    We will not charge you any thing other than the display price of all the products we sell
2.    We will not hide charges in fine prints or terms and conditions page
3.    We will not invite customers showing them half-truth information in advertisements. Such as $4 domain names, when that price is only available with either hosting purchase or with some useless domain name extension.
4.    We will actively inform and advice customers about the dubious practices of our competitors on our web-page

Following is the list of dubious practices followed by some of the Internet shops

1.    Half Truth Promotions: Use catchy promotional price to attract you to their website. The reality is that the promotional price is only available with some expensive add-on product or on a product that no one wants. ADPS policy is to tell you the complete truth. We respect the value of your time and effort. With our transparent pricing, you need not spend time watching out for hidden costs.

2.    Credit card charges: Some companies charge you as much as 7% of total billing as credit card transaction charges. You may not even know until after you have paid for the service. 7% is huge it means if a company displays $8.99 as price, you actually end-up paying $9.62 for it

3.     Hiding prices in fine print or in font smaller than the list price, one example of such practice is ICANN fee of 25 cents on every domain name

4.    Hiding prices on terms and conditions page

On our website you will never pay anything other than what you see as display price.