Setting up your own
personal web site

All esn.net subscribers with an unlimited usage account may have a free personal web site. This site may not be used for commerce or business enterprise. Advertisement of and solicitation for business constitutes a business web page and will be billed accordingly.

Executive Account Holder ($35/Month)
Five Megabytes of storage
with each additional 1M of storage costing $1.00 per 1M per Month.

Basic Unlimited Account Holder($20/Month)
2 Megabytes of storage with each additional 1M of storage costing $2.00 per 1M per Month.

  1. Create your web page(s) and all graphics(.gif or .jpg) and have them ready to upload to esn.net's server.

  2. If you need help creating your page, go here.

  3. If you don't already have an FTP(File Transfer Protocol) client installed on your machine, download one from Strouds Consummate Winsock Apps or TUCOWS(The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software). Try WS_FTP or CuteFTP.

  4. Set your FTP Software to log on to:

    ww2.esn.net

    Use your e-mail log in name and password.

  5. By default, you will land on our server in the /usr/home/yourusername folder(directory).

  6. You'll see a number of files already there...many with a "." in front of the name. They're very important. Never delete any of the files or folders esn.net has placed there.

  7. There should be a folder named public_html there...If not, make a new folder(dir) on our server named public_html

  8. Open this public_html folder(dir) and upload your new pages and graphics to this new folder(dir) on our server. All file names should be in lowercase letters, as our server is case sensitive.

  9. Always rename your homepage index.html after uploading, so that:
    • Your vistors must only type in the directory name http://ww2.esn.net/~yourusername and not have to also type the page name.
    • Without index.html, visitors can view the entire contents of your directory and see all your work, good or bad.

  10. You can't work on your pages while they're on the esn.net server. You must edit them on your machine, upload them and overwrite the files already there.

  11. Your URL or web address will be:

    http://ww2.esn.net/~yourusername

  12. Remember that you're a guest on this server. Your access is restricted to your folder.


If you have problems connecting or uploading, e-mail:
help@esn.net

If you'd like a link from our Customer's Web Sites Page, e-mail:
webmaster@esn.net.

If you have questions or comments, e-mail:
webmaster@esn.net

Good Luck!