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Personal Storage Space from
TriCounty Telecom |
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Create Your Own Home Page/Storage Space
Posting files to the TriCounty Web Server
NOTE: This
page describes the features of the TriCounty web server--for
personal web pages. This location does not support
Microsoft FrontPage software, forms or counters. To find
out about our full web hosting plans click
here.
TriCounty offers you 5MB of storage space with each
of your dialup Internet
access account emails. This space can be used to upload
a personal
web page or store documents, images or any files you wish
for others to see. Once you have designed your webpage and uploaded
it
or uploaded your files, you can simply email family or friends
your webpage address. (Example: for userid "johndoe"
you would use
http://web.gotricounty.com/~johndoe )
To Activate Personal Storage Space for an
Additional Email Account, Please Do the Following:
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Login to your MyAccount at
http://myaccount.gotricounty.com with the
username and password you want to activate
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On the menu option to the left, select
"Add/Remove Basic Services"
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Locate "Web Space" and "Turn On" this feature
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Log out of MyAccount, and you will be ready to
use the storage space after 30 minutes.
*This will need to be done for each additional
email account created for the individual email
account's personal storage space to become
activated.
What is “Personal Web Space”?
Personal web space is a spot allocated for you, the
customer, to store a website, documents, images, or
even photos. This space is accessible by you, the
site owner, by using your Internet browser, Web Page
Editor, or FTP (File Transfer Protocol). It is also
accessible by the rest of the world by typing your
URL (Uniform Resource Locator, also known as your
web address) into their Internet browsers. Your web
space administration is password protected so your
files will stay safe and secure and will only be
available for others by surfing to your URL.
How
Do I Put Files into My Web Space?
In
order for files to become available from your
personal web space, you must first put them there.
The method of doing this is called “File Transfer
Protocol” (FTP). FTP is the method of delivery,
but you must have a way to use this method; enter
FTP clients. An FTP client is a piece of software
that allows you to put files on the server (upload)
and get files from the server (download). There are
several types of clients that can be used.
What Clients Can I Use to Put Files in My Web Space?
As
mentioned before, there are several types of FTP
clients. Programs such as “WsFTP” and “SmartFTP”
are 100% FTP clients. This means their only
functions are to put files on a server and get files
from a server. These are great for people who are
only storing files in their web space or are using a
text editor (like notepad or WordPad) to create web
pages and then uploading them when they are done.
Programs like “Dream Weaver” and “FrontPage” are
webpage editors (also known as HTML editors) that,
in addition to creating and editing web pages, also
have a built-in FTP client. This is handy for
creating many web pages and then uploading them
quickly. And lastly, there is the web based
software that you access from our FTP site. Our FTP
tool allows you to upload files from your Internet
browser without the need for these third-party
programs. Simply go to our FTP site, log in with
your username and password, choose the directory
where you
would like to put your files and then upload.
What Steps Do I Take to Use the Web-Based FTP Tool?
1.)
Surf to http://webftp.gotricounty.com
2.)
Enter your username and password exactly as it was
provided to you by your TriCounty Customer Service
Representative.
3.)
Click the link of the folder where you want to upload your
files
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The
FTP folder is accessible by anonymous FTP, which
means a user can surf to
ftp://ftp.gotricounty.com/USERID (replace
USERID with your userid)
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The
“public_html” folder is where you would place all of
your webpage related files and images. This folder
is accessible to the rest of the world by surfing to
http://www.gotricounty.com/~USERID (replace
USERID with your userid, be sure to put a “~”
(tilde) in front of your userid. Example: http://www.gotricounty.com/~johndoe)
4.)
Once you are inside your desired folder, you are
presented with three options:
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Upload A File: Allows you to put a file from your
computer to your web space
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Create A Directory: Organize your web space by
creating additional folders
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Advanced Mode: View important information about your
files and change permissions
What Are the Addresses That I Give to
Friends/Family?
All addresses
are composed of two things, "gotricounty.com" and
your userid. Listed below is the format you
would use to access these “sites”. Replace
USERID with the userid provided by your
TriCounty Customer Service Representative:
1.)
I
want to access my files directly from an Internet
Browser using FTP:
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ftp://ftp.gotricounty.com/USERID
2.)
I
want my friends/family to see my webpage:
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http://www.gotricounty.com/~USERID
3.)
I
want to access a folder called “images” in my public html
directory, how do I access it:
- http://www.gotricounty.com/~USERID/images/
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