Getting Started with Windows Shared Hosting

To make your website visible on the Web, your website’s files and data must be stored or "hosted" on a computer that is connected to the Internet. There are lots of options for hosting your website files.

Plesk enables web hosting customers to easily perform a wide variety of tasks using a robust and easy to use web interface. It includes all the necessary tools to create and manage websites, mailboxes, databases, and so on. Let’s get started to windows shared hosting by following below steps:-

Step 1: Purchase a Windows Shared Hosting service.

Step 2: Login: To login in Plesk panel, write https://domain_name:8443 or http://domain_name:8880 to login.

Step 3: Fill out the username and password and click Log In.

Step 4: File Manager: After logging into Plesk, navigate to Websites and Domains->Add domain.

Step 5: By Clicking on add domain, it will navigate to add new domain page. Fill out all the entities in the form and click OK.

Step 6: After adding domain, click on httpdocs to upload your website.

Step 7: Click on Upload, and browse your website from desired location.

NOTE: You need to upload zip file of website, after upload process is completed, click on Extract Files to extract your zip file on control panel.

Step 8: FTP Accounts:

To Setup an FTP account in Plesk, Click Here.
To Setup File Zilla for uploading website content, Click Here.

Step 9: Name Servers:

A great simple way to think about name servers is using a phone book analogy. If you were trying to call Gen X: Web Hosting you might have remembered our phone number, but more than likely you'd want to look it up before just guessing at numbers. A name server is a specialized server on the Internet that handles queries or questions from your local computer, about the location of a domain name's various services.
You need to point the name servers to your hosting server In order to make your website live.
To change name servers Click Here and follow the given steps.

Step 10: Email Account Setup: - This interface allows you to add and manage email accounts for your domains. To add a new email address, Click Here and perform the given steps.