After you have signed up for your developer hosting you should receive an email with your account details and hosting plan summary. If for any reason you did not receive this, then please use the FEEDBACK over on the side of the site to let me know and I will resend it. Be sure to check your junk email folder and to add cfmldeveloper.com to your filters/whitelist so that emails from the system do not get junked.

If you now refer to the hosting support page that led you here, you will links to the various control panels that are available to you for managing your hosting as web, please review the "Website Panel video tutorials" for instructions on how to use the system.
I also recommend you subscribe to the blog and follow me on twitter so that you receive any important news or updates regarding the service.

Setting up your domain

If you chose to register or use your own domain during signup then your domain should already be setup within WebsitePanel ready for use.
If you did not choose any domain during signup or it was not setup then please watch the "How to add a domain in WebsitePanel" video tutorial.

Your domain name will need to be set to use the following name servers

ns0.primarydns.co.uk
ns1.priamrydns.co.uk

If you wish to use a free cfmldeveloper.com sub-domain, then please view the "how to create  a sub-domain in WebsitePanel" tutorial, except please choose the "provider sub-domain" option (which is not on the video) on the Domains page, which will allow you to choose "cfmldeveloper.com" as the sub-domain.

Email

If you want to use the CFML Developer free email, then you need to signup for this service Google Apps service HERE. this gives you access to collaboration tools, source control, peer code reviews, project management tools and a lot more.
You will need to use this or your exisitng outgoing mail server if you wish to send email out via your website using CFMAIL.

Data Source Names

Currently WebsitePanel has no way to create ColdFusion DSN's, I am working on a plugin to allow this, but in the mean time please se ethe FAQ for details on how to setup a DSN.

Please note that best practice is to *NOT* put your database usernmae/password into the DSN as this is insecure as other users on the server may be able to then use your DSN. Instead pass your login details into your queries as variables. If you wish to use RDS though then there is no way around this as the username/password must be in the DSN in order to use RDS to query the database.

For more advice on this please ask on the discussion list.

RDS Access

This is not enabled by default as it requires a custom sandbox and login to be created. This will also be included in my custom plugin for self management, so again in the meantime please contact me if you require RDS access and supply the folowing details.

Your Website Panel userID:
Desired Password:
DSN's: all your datasources that you will need RDS access to. If you add more DSN's later then you will need to request for them to be added to your sandbox.