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Procedures
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If
you purchased a new domain, please allow 24 hours for it to propagate
throughout the Internet.When you see the "under construction"
page below, you will know your domain has propagated and your new hosting
account is ready for use. If you purchased hosting or email for an existing domain or domain registrar transfer you will first need to contact your existing domain registrar and update your DNS settings to our name servers NS1.LOWESTHOSTING.COM & NS2.LOWESTHOSTING.COM After your DNS it will take up to 24 hours for the Internet to propagate the changes after which your account with Lowesthosting.com will work.
After your domain
has propagated, simply type help.yourdomain.com
to get to the client area for each domain you own ( for example if your
domain is acme.com...just type help.acme.com)
Every new account is emailed a "Payment Receipt" and "Welcome Email" . You may need these to prove ownership or access your account information in the future so please remember to print and store them for safe keeping. |
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Getting Started: Start with the"Quick Setup Guide" which explains all the important areas of your new hosting account. Each part of the client area is self explanatory and you can click the help "?" button for explanations of any client area feature.
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How
To Submit A Support Request::
To reach our support department please submit a new support ticket for
each new issue.
Please Be Detailed In Your Answers: Your hosting account contains many different systems; The Domain, The Billing System, The Server and its subcomponents like FTP or Email Accounts. Please try to be as detailed as possible and explain what steps you are doing, what logins or passwords or other configurations you are entering and what errors or messages result.. The more information you supply the faster our technicians can interpret and verify your issue and supply a solution. Why Email Is Used For All Support Issues: You should always open a support ticket or send an email directly to support@lowesthosting.com for any communication with our firm regardless of the subject. The support ticketing system logs your ticket and ties to our billing system allowing our technicians and engineers to pull your records and quickly respond or pass an issue to other staff or departments until its resolved. Because of the highly technical nature of our business it lets us supply you with exact written instructions and maintain a history for each issue as well as comply with our legal departments requirements for an audit trail. |
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How
Billing Works:: You
can use the billing system to view past invoices, pay a renewal invoice,
or add on service invoices.. |
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Emergency Proceedures: If you need to contact support please open a ticket from the ticketing system and explain the issue so our technicians can try to help you. If there was ever a catastrophic network outage and our website was also down, our special fail over mirror will take approximately 15 minutes to cut over to our backup servers located on another network so rest assured you will always be able to reach us even under adverse conditions. In the
rare event your website is not reachable this could be due to either a
problem with your Browser, Firewall, Router, ISP
or a problem with one of the thousands of Internet transit points or routers
between your location and our server or a problem with your domain being
expired or your web server being rebooted or under high load or in rare
cases down.
The network status monitor is hosted from our secondary network and will show the status of all our webservers. If your webserver has red bars on it, then our technicians are already aware of the problem and it is not necessary to contact support as this only adds to our workload. If an emergency server outage occurs, we will post announcement updates on the help.Lowesthosting website to keep you informed of the outage condition and expected repair time. Our administrative office is also available Monday -Friday from 9am to 5pm Pacific Standard Time at 800-762-4913 x 0 for non technical issues.
If your webserver is showing green, then the problem is somewhere between you and our server. Please try another ISP or computer and if no luck open a support ticket by sending an email directly to support@lowesthosting.com |
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| Summary: help.yourdomain.com is your client area where you can access your domain/server/billing/support and tutorials. help.lowesthosting.com if yourdomain is not working to view the news announcments or network status. Administration: 800-762-4913 extension 0 if you are unable use our normal systems to resolve an issue. |
Thank you for your business.