Uploading

This section covers getting the website, files and pictures you have created onto your Valcato Hosting webspace; this is a process called “uploading” which, as you might suspect, is the opposite of downloading.

FTP

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is the method used for getting your website onto the internet, in order to use FTP you’ll need a program called an FTP Client. There are tonnes of different FTP Clients available, some are free some are expensive, but personal preference leads me to recommend Core FTP LE (which just so happens to be free). So go ahead and download and install Core FTP LE.

Connecting

Next you need to connect to your webspace before you can start uploading your files, so first open up Core FTP LE and open the Site Manager if it doesn’t appear automatically. Now you need to click the “New Site” button and fill in the details as shown here:

Site Name - A name to identify this website to you (can be anything),
Host / IP / URL - The FTP Address from your welcome email,
Username - The Website Control Panel username from your welcome email,
Password - The Website Control Panel password from your welcome email.

Now click the “Connect” button and you should see something like this:

As you can see the screen is divided into two halves; on the left is your computer and on the right your hosting account.

Uploading

Before you can start uploading you need to make sure you’re putting your files in the correct directory. As you can see there are a couple of directories such as “etc”, “mail” and “tmp” these are all used for various different aspects of your account that are all managed via the Website Control Panel so there’s no need to touch them.

Your website files must go in the public_html directory otherwise they won’t show up, so double click “public_html” and you’ll see this:

Now you can upload! To upload a file, browse to it on your computer (using the left side of the screen) right click and select “Upload”.

Your files(s) will then appear at the bottom of the screen which lets you know how much of a file has been uploaded and approximately how long it will take, just like downloading this depends upon your connection speed. Once completed the file will appear on the right hand side of the screen:

And you’re done! Now just repeat for your other files, of course you can select more than one file, or an entire directory to save time.

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