If you have moved your website to our servers or a staff member has migrated your website, you will want to check the website on your local before updating the nameservers. Please follow the below instructions for PC users
Click Start Button on windows scroll to Notepad or use search to find the application
Right click the Notpad Icon, and clicking “Run as Administrator” - You must run as administrator for this to work.
Once you have Notepad Open, Click on File -> Open, and then navigate to the location of the “HOSTS” file, by pasting the below path in the bottom bar.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
Note: You need to click the drop-down box on the bottom right of the display box and select "All Files" for the hosts file to be visible.
With the file open you will see a screen like the Image below. You will then need to Add a new Line, for each website you would like to see .
118.127.63.31 mediafortress.com www.mediafortress.com (replace with your own domain and IP you have been provided with )
(This will bypass DNS and tell your computer to load the website from the IP address)
Now click file -> save.
If you have any browsers open, you will need to close out of them completely and reopen (some browsers have DNS caching). To confirm you are loading the site from the right server, you can use the Developer Tools in Google Chrome or Firefox browsers. For Chrome, in Developer Tools. Click on the Network tab and reload the page. Then right click one of the column names and select "Remote Address". This will enable showing the Remote Address column so you can see where requests are loading from Now when you visit one of the sites you put in the hosts file, the "Remote Address" column will confirm your loading from the IP set.
