Personal Websites
Accessing Your Personal Website
Access
Personal web-space is accessed using the username portion of your email
address. If your email address was “cotnetuser@cot.net”, then the
username would be “cotnetuser”.
Login to the FTP site (ftp.cot.net) using “cotnetuser” and your email password.
Viewing
View your personal web-space from a web browser like this:
http://users.cot.net/~cotnetuser/
Space
Cot.net provides our users with 50MB to 150MB of disk space for creation of a personal
website, depending upon which plan you currently subscribe to. At this time we only support FTP for uploading and downloading files
to and from your website.
Website Creation Tools
Popular website creation utilities with FTP capability are (no
particular order):
Other Tips
When you login to upload your website, you need to make sure there is a folder
called public_html. This is the folder where your website will reside on our
server. If this folder is not there, your publishing software should have the
ability to create it. Look for something called "Create Directory", "Create
Folder", "New Folder" or something similar.
Your default document needs to be named index.html. A default document is what comes up when no page is specified.
Like this:
http://users.cot.net/~yourusername/ vs. http://users.cot.net/~yourusername/index.html
The former would look to the default document for display. If someone browses
to your site using the former syntax and you don't have an "index.html"
document, the user will receive an error page.
