To host your website with Albury Local Internet
follow these step-by-step instructions

  1. Create your own home-page.
    You need to create a home page in "HTML". There are various sources around the net to assist you with this.

    Some places to get HTML information and tools:
    Places to get HTML ideas and help:
    People who can create your HTML pages for you:
  2. Basic rules:
    No pornography, offensive, illegal or restricted material.
    Basic levels of literacy, accuracy and decency to be observed.

  3. Costs:
    There is a $11/month hosting fee for personal or business home pages up to 5Mb in size. This is offset by up to $11/month (free) connect time for active account users. Additional disk space is available at $11 per extra 10Mb or part thereof per month.

  4. Pages:
    May be any number of HTML files, GIF or JPEG images, to a combined total of 5Mb or less disk space at no extra charge. Additional space is available if required, but will attract additional charges (see above). Currently, there are no charges for "hits" to your page(s), although we reserve the right to change this policy (in which case people will be advised before the introduction of any such charges).
    We provide comprehensive analysis with "full domain" hosting.
    If you need to restrict access to your pages to (or from) specific domains contact the SysAdmin.

    Please include the following code at the bottom of your page(s):
    <a href="http://www.albury.net.au/">
    <img border="0" src="http://www.albury.net.au/home.gif"><br>
    Home Page</a>

  5. Once you have created your home page(s), you need to upload your page(s) to our server. To do this, you will need an FTP agent. If you don't have one, we have Windows and Macintosh versions available.

    Step-by-step instructions:
    1. Using your FTP client, log in to our server www.albury.net.au, using the userid and password we provided to you on your User Account Configuration sheet.
      If you are uploading to your own domain hosted with us, instead of using www.albury.net.au, use your domain, eg www.yourdomain.com.au

    2. Create a directory called public_html
      This must be in lower case and exactly as above. The directory may already exist if we host your domain, or if you have previously had a web-page hosted here.

    3. Change into the public_html directory (folder) and upload your file(s). This includes ALL html, htm, jpg, gif and any other files you use. Note: As our servers run Unix, everything is CASE SENSITIVE. This means that Photo.jpg and photo.jpg are DIFFERENT. Be aware of this, because this is the most common cause of problems with new websites.

    4. Your main page should be called index.html, although our server will use index.htm if the preferred file does not exist. The file must be in all lower case.

    5. Logout/close the FTP connection, run your browser and CHECK YOUR PAGE.
      At this time, it won't be on the users home page list, so you will need to refer to it explicitly, for example, if your userid is johndoe, go to: http://www.albury.net.au/~johndoe
      Check EVERYTHING works, properly. Ideally, check with different browsers too.
      If you feel adventurous, use a validation service for extra kudos!

    6. At about 2am daily, our system re-indexes all listed websites. If you have uploaded your website properly, it will be checked for a <TITLE> tag, which will be used as the description, and shown on our Clients and Subscribers Websites index. If you do NOT want your site listed, create a file called "exclude.me" in your public_html directory, and our indexing will ignore your site.

    7. You may also wish to submit your URL(s) to some search engines. There are services which allow you to submit to multiple search engines at once, such as Submit-It, or you can visit your preferred search engines and submit manually. Most seach sites have a submit page, eg Google
      Please note: Search Engines may take up to three months to process submissions.


For any further enquiries, email: Support