If you are just dying to get going you can skip all this and just go ahead and SIGNUP already. But don't say we didn't tell ya so...

Contents:
Step 0: Pre-flight Check - fasten your safety belts...
Step 1: Domain Name - www.com.org.tv.crap.yo.stuff...
Step 2: Sign Up and Pay - all we need is your first born...
Step 3: FTP - getting your crap on our server...
Step 4: Email - so you're ready to be bombarded with spam...
Step 5: Stats - see if you can hang out with the popular crowd...
Step 6: Support and Billing - read the FAQ first, then bother us...

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Step 0: Pre-flight Check
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First, read this whole site, FAQ and all... Then if you have any questions, Email us at info@logjamming.com. We wouldn't want you to go through the hassle of signing up and then change your mind. Well... okay, WE don't wanna have to deal with the hassle. So, if you wanna know, and you can't find it on the site, just ask.

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Step 1: Domain Name
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First you will need a domain name. If you don't have your own, we can register it for you for $10/year. The process has not been automated yet so just shoot us an email at support@logjamming.com and we'll start the process. (If you've already got one, keep reading, i'll get to that.) If you choose to register with someone else, that's fine; you will be asked to designate Primary and Secondary DNS hosts at some point, no matter who your register with. Enter the following info:

Now if you've already got a domain, you're going to have to transfer your DNS hosts to us. So go to whoever you registered with's web site and modify your registration. Just enter the Primary and Secondary DNS server info listed above, and you should be on your way. If you have any troubles with this, let us know and we'll see if we can help out.

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Step 2: Sign Up and Pay
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Once you're ready, fill out this SIGNUP FORM. It will setup your account.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK THE "Pay Now with Paypal" LINK on the last page to do just that. Your account will not be activated until payment is cleared.

We currently only take payment via Paypal. If you are dying for us to host you and you absolutely can't use paypal, email us at info@logjamming.com and we'll see if we can work something out, but no guarantees. We require a year's payment when you signup (again, for easy bookeeping). If you wanna drop us before the year is up we'll refund the balance, less the paypal fees.

Once your payment has cleared your account will be activated and you will be sent an email with all of your account information. DNS takes a day or so to transfer fully, sometimes longer depending on how often your ISP refreshes their DNS cache (it's been known to take up to 72 hours, but usually it's around 24). As soon as it has propagated, you should be able to type your domain into a browser and get the default logjamming welcome page, which you will be replacing in the next step. As soon as you can reach your site, you can upload to your hearts content.

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Step 3: FTP
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We're assuming you have some experience with FTP, but if you don't, go do some research, it's the web for god's sake, the info is everywhere. This part is easy.

Simply point your FTP client of choice to ftp.YOURDOMAINGOESHERE.com, provide your login and password, and bam, you're in.

Plesk (RedHat Linux):
When you login with your primary account you will be in the root of your site, and you'll see the following directories: "anon_ftp", "bin", "cgi-bin", "conf", "error_docs", "httpdocs", "logs", "pd", and "web_users" and maybe a few others. All documents for your site should go into the "httpdocs" directory; this is where your index file goes. All CGI's go in the "cgi-bin" directory. Please don't mess with any directories other than those. Pretty easy eh? If you are using Blogger, make sure that in your settings you set the FTP Path to "/httpdocs/".

The default page needs to be named "index.html" or "index.php". duh.

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Step 4: Email
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Set your POP3 incoming email server in your email client to mail.yourdomain.com, provide your name and password, and it should be smooth sailing.

DO NOT set your outgoing mail server to the same server as your incoming, because it will be denied for reasons I will explain. PLEASE use your ISP's SMTP mail server to send mail, and simply use yourname@yourdomain.com as a "reply to address" in your mail clients settings. Why you ask? Because if we open up our mail server to relaying (which is what you would be doing if you sent mail through us since we aren't your internet provider), then we would be opening it up for spammers to use us like the sluts we are. If you have NO OTHER WAY of sending email, we will work something out with you, we're nice that way.

We also provide web based email so you can check your email from any web browser.

You're webmail is accessible at http://webmail.YOURDOMAINGOESHERE.com. Use your login and password to login. Remember to logout if you are on a public computer.
If you would like to add or modify your email accounts, simply login to your admin area and click the domain. Then click the mail icon to setup more email accounts.

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Step 5: Stats
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We thought you might want those, ya narcissist.
Just go to http://YOURDOMAINGOESHERE.com/plesk-stat/webstat/, no login required.
(We use Webalizer by the way.)

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Step 6: Support and Billing
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So ya messed something up eh?

All support and billing is handled through the accounts/billing system located at https://www.logjamming.com/accounts. Login with the email address you signed up with and click "Get Support." It's pretty self explanatory from there.

We're online most of the time as well, so if it's an EMERGENCY, you can probably catch us on AIM. Josh is "inDeadLanguage" and Brian is "gore ethics" (the boy ain't right, he REALLY likes horror movies).