You did not call your main page "index.html". Your site's main page,
that is, the one that appears when someone goes to your site by typing
your domain name or IP into their browser, *must* be called either
index.html or index.htm. When the web server receives a visitor
to "yourdomain.com" or "123.45.67.89", the file the web server will display is
a file called "index.html" or "index.htm" on your /public_html/ directory.
In fact, when you connect to your account for the first time and enter the
directory /public_html/, you'll see that there is a "index.htm" file in there.
That's the default page Sanders Hosting puts on your account.
NOTE: "yourdomain.com" and "yourdomain.com/index.htm" (if your
main page is called index.htm" is the same. If you want to display a different
page (like "anotherpage.html"), just go to "yourdomain.com/anotherpage.html".
NOTE: if your site is made up of a scripting language, like
PHP or ASP, then the index page can be called "index.php" or "index.asp",
respectively. Some other extensions are ".mv" or ".jsp".
If you have uploaded a new index page, or you have replaced any other page,
and you still see the old one, then there can be two reasons to this:
You have a "caching" problem. When you go to a page on any website, your
browser will store that page (and its images) on your computer's hard drive. The next time
you go to that same page, the browser will just pull out the copy on your
hard drive instead of pulling it out of the server. If you replaced
a file on the server and you still see the old one, you are actually
seeing the local copy. To solve this on Netscape, press the SHIFT key and
click on "RELOAD" while leaving the SHIFT key pressed. On Internet Explorer,
it's a bit more complex. First, try SHIFT + REFRESH. If you still see the
old copy, then empty IE's cache: go to the "Tools" menu, then "Internet Options",
then click on "Delete Files" on the "Temporary Internet Files"
section of the "General tab".
NOTE: your ISP (Internet Service Provider) might also have a caching server. The most
frequently accessed sites are stored on a local cache server to speed
up delivery of websites. Sometimes, it's just impossible to clear or
refresh the files on that cache server. The only solution is just to wait
for them to instruct the cache server to update all local copies with
new ones. This problem is very common on "big name" ISPs, like AOL,
EarthLink, WorldNet, etc.
You did not replaced the file. If you are uploading a new index page
to replace an older one (or the one Sanders Hosting places on your account),
you must upload it to the same place where the old one is. That is,
to replace your site's main page, you must upload your "index" page to the
same place the previous one is so that it gets replaced.
3 ibr02-pbnap.sntc03.exodus.net (198.32.128.22) 1.1 ms 1.16 ms 1.8 ms
4 bbr01-g3-0.sntc03.exodus.net (216.33.153.65) 2.0 ms 1.6 ms 1.45 ms
5 bbr02-p5-0-0.sntc04.exodus.net (216.32.132.217) 2.4 ms 2.6 ms 2.3 ms
6 bbr02-p3-0.okbr01.exodus.net (216.32.132.149) 57.5 ms 58.9 ms 61.3 ms
7 bbr01-g4-0.okbr01.exodus.net (216.34.183.97) 63.3 ms 54.2 ms 58.0 ms
8 bbr02-p0-1.trnt01.exodus.net (216.32.173.33) 96.9 ms 120.5 ms 97.9 ms
9 64.39.64.65 (64.39.64.65) 67.84 ms 68.63 ms 96.22 ms
10 64.39.64.3 (64.39.64.3) 99.39 ms 80.88 ms 68.49 ms
11 64.39.68.242 (64.39.68.242) 71.021 ms 69.266 ms 68.405 ms
12 www.opensrs.org (216.40.33.61) 77.609 ms 73.312 ms 77.831 ms
Each of those entries are the systems data from your computer will go through before
reaching a website (or vice versa), in this example, opensrs.org. The "ms" numbers
are response times on that location. If you see locations with numbers much higher than
the rest, then that's a slow link in the chain. It might explain, for example, why
one site is faster than another from your location, or why your website is slow
from your location.
