Getting Started with Sonician Guide Print

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Welcome to Sonician!

Congratulations on signing up for an account with us.

Step 1: Determine Your Needs

Getting started with your web hosting account is not complicated. The first step is to determine what you need to do.

  • Do you already have a web site or are you starting from scratch?
    If you're starting from scratch, go to step 2 below.
  • Do you need to transfer your web site from a previous host?
    If so, Sonician might be able to help you with that.
    Simply log in to your clientarea, and fill out the transfer form you find here ("Transfer" is only a visible "support department" if you are logged in).
    Once the transfer process is completed, proceed to step 2.

Step 2: Change Your DNS

In order to get your web site working, you must change your name servers. This is a necessary step, and fortunately an easy one that you must follow to get started.

  • If you registered your domain name with Sonician during signup, we have taken care of this step for you already.
  • If you have registered your domain name with another company (i. e. GoDaddy, Loopia, etc.), you must follow the steps outlined in the article on making DNS server changes on this page.

Once your DNS changes have been made, it takes roughly 24-48 hours for your web site to start resolving to Sonician's servers. If it takes longer than two days for your web site to start working, please contact our support team.

Step 3: Uploading Your Web Site

You can begin uploading to your account now by using an FTP Client or cPanel's File Manager (see corresponding knowledgebase articles if you're not sure on how).

  • If you are using an FTP client, put in your site's IP address under the "FTP address" field. Use the username and password sent to you in your welcome email. FTP always runs on Port 21.
  • Once your FTP is connected, go into the "public_html" folder and begin uploading your site. To replace the default place holder page, you must upload an index.html in all lowercase lettering or delete the page and replace it with your own index page.
  • Please note that by default, you do not have an email address setup with Sonician. You will need to configure this yourself in cPanel.

Step 4: Note These Useful Links

"Before propagation" as it is defined below is the point between when you sign up and when the changes to your name servers take effect (usually about 24 hours after you change your name servers).

  • "After propagation" is once your site is up and running normally.
  • During propagation you should use the "Before propagation" format.
Place: Before Propagation: After Propagation:
cPanel http://12.23.345.67/cpanel http://yourdomain.com/cpanel
Webmail http://12.23.345.67/webmail http://yourdomain.com/webmail
Web Site http://12.23.345.67/~username/ http://yourdomain.com

Be sure to replace the information in red with the information from your welcome email.

Step 5: Get More From Your Hosting Account

Now that you have a hosting account with Sonician, you may want to refer your friends to Sonician and get paid for it with our Affiliate Program.

Step 6: Get Help

Our support is available in case you ever have any questions. Our team of customer service representatives, server administrators, and sales professionals are happy to help.

Looking for immediate answers? Check out our informative knowledge base. It has over 300 articles that address commonly asked questions and issues, including useful tutorials of some of our most popular features.

Immediately after you email our support team via the contact form, you will receive an email confirming we have received your email and that the issue has been placed in our support queue. If you do not receive this email, we did not receive your support ticket.

Our best administrators work in our ticket system all the time. It is the best place to go to get your complicated issues resolved in a timely manner.

We do have a few suggestions for using our ticket system, though:

  1. Only submit one ticket per issue. If you submit multiple tickets for the same issue, it actually slows down the support process.
  2. Always be sure to include your primary domain name, username, and as much detail as possible. If a login or URL is needed to duplicate the problem, please include that as well. The more detail you provide to our administrators, the faster they can resolve your issue.

When to use phone support:
We are available also over the phone. Our phone support representatives can address many of your basic issues and concerns. The more complicated issues will require a support ticket to be submitted.

Step 7: Manage Your Billing

You will be billed automatically for your packages with us on the appropriate date after your purchase was completed (i. e. if you pay monthly, you will be billed monthly on the day of the month that you signed up) or for some packages, it will be pro-rated, so you actually pay for the first or last date of the month. Please ensure that you have an updated credit card or PayPal subscription on file. If your bill is not paid in a timely manner, your service may be interrupted.

If you wish to cancel, upgrade, update information, get SSL certificates, IP addresses, or anything else related to billing, please contact us

To manage your billing, including to update your credit card, view invoices, change your primary email address, etc., please login to your clientarea at this link.


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