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Loud Mountain domain name servers: You want your new website to appear when someone types your domain name into a browser. For that to happen you need to ‘point’ your domain name to our servers. Here’s how: Login to your domain name Registrar’s website to ‘administer’ your domain name The terminology in this step changes with almost every registrar; go [...] Read more – ‘Loud Mountain domain name servers’.
What is a staging area?: A staging area is used when a customer requires the ability to test their website prior to making it live to the world. It’s most commonly used in the preparation for moving a website from another hosting company to Loud Mountain. If your need a staging area to test your website, you can contact us with the [...] Read more – ‘What is a staging area?’.
Moving your web hosting to Loud Mountain: Moving web hosting service is more than just copying files from one server to another server. You need to follow certain steps to ensure that there is no down time for your website. Moving a static website (without email changes) to Loud Mountain hosting Sign up to a web hosting package. Contact Loud Mountain support to create a staging [...] Read more – ‘Moving your web hosting to Loud Mountain’.
What’s the difference between IMAP and POP?: Unlike POP, IMAP offers two-way communication between your webmail and your email client(s). This means when you log in to Gmail using a web browser, actions you perform on email clients and mobile devices (ex: putting mail in a ‘work’ folder) will instantly and automatically appear in Gmail (ex: it will already have a ‘work’ [...] Read more – ‘What’s the difference between IMAP and POP?’.
IMAP vs POP3: POP3: Post Office Protocol (version 3, the current standard) Email clients, using POP3, download all the emails off the server and stores them locally. Although most email clients have an option to leave emails on server after download, the email clients generally connect to the mail server, download the email messages, and then delete the [...] Read more – ‘IMAP vs POP3’.