ftp stuff

[thereisnospoon]

i don't know much about linux or even ftp but anywho::

not long ago me and a few mates decided we were gonna start up a half 
life:counter strike clan. so we got a few people together, and me being 
the labelled computer guy of the group, i was assigned to the task of 
sorting out the website.
i can't pay for anything so i signed up for free hosting at 
www.portland.co.uk, actually i probably should have made the site before 
finding a hosting solution. but anyway, after uploading a little tester 
page which simply had the text "something big is coming" in white text 
on a black background in the center of a page, all seemed fine. THEN i 
tried to update the page to make it into a redirect for the real main 
page (by which time i had finished). so to do this i deleted the page i 
was updating and uploaded the new one. the page was called index.html in 
both cases, the updated and the tester.

now, when i typed in http://miraclesinvain.port5.com/index.html into my 
browser address bar, the updated page loads. but when i type 
http://miraclesinvain.port5.com without specifying the file it loads the 
old tester page which was supposed to be deleted. i looked again on my 
ftp browser and the tester file was indeed gone. but apparently not 
gone.  so currently my ftp account is apparently completely deleted. but 
the old tester page still shows up. i've tried wiping my cache and 
opening it with a range of other apps, opened it from another computer 
and deleted all my cookies and tried it all over again and i can safely 
say the problem does not lie with me and my computer. and the problem 
has persisted for more 5 days so i doubt it's gonna go away.

i'd prefer not to change host if i can. portland has a very good offer 
and i'd like to stay with them even if there is some more effort 
required by me to keep everything running smoothly than would be some 
other host that has ads.

thanks in advance :D