Personal Web Space

Your Kit Carson dial-up account comes with server space allotted for a homepage or any other files you would like to store in this space, i.e. photos, documents. 

Creating your web page(s)
Check out the html/web page development resources provided below if you're not sure how to get started. Please note that you cannot use frontpage extensions, php, cgi-scripts or any other server side programming.  If you need this level of service, you should purchase our commercial products for domains. 

Once you have developed your web page(s),  everything looks good and is working on your computer, you're ready to upload the files to your Kit Carson account. To set up your account please call us at 758-4838.

SFTP access
SFTP access is enabled for your account. If you have problems please  contact us at 758-4838 or email us techsupport. 

Transferring your files
You upload your files using an SFTP application.  We like WINSCP for Windows, or FUGU for the Mac. 

You'll need to supply your SFTP application with the following information:

Host or Server: User ID: Password: Directory Path:

users.kitcarson.net  your username  your password  not needed*

*You will be taken to the proper directory where you can then upload your files and create new folders.

Accessing your site on the web
Once your page is uploaded to your account, it can be accessed using a web browser at http://users.kitcarson.net/username

Things to look out for
Avoid any spaces in filenames; and remember that once it's been uploaded to the Unix server that case matters - in other words, "filename.html" will be seen as a different file than "Filename.HTML". 

These are the most common mistakes and easy to make since most desktop machines are case-insensitive and don't have a problem with spaces in filenames. 

Hints
Name the first file you want seen, "index.html" or "index.htm". This is the page that will be shown if someone requests "http://users.kitcarson.net/~username".

Keep your image file sizes as small as possible. Most people don't have the patience to wait for a 200k full-screen JPG file, no matter how cool it is.