Dedicated Hosting: Setting Up Your FTP Account

By Kevin Abrahams


If you have a dedicated hosting site, you will probably experienced frustration at the time it can take to upload your site. There is a quicker way to upload your site to the web hosting account and this is why FTP accounts are amongst the most popular add-ons for a site. You will need control panel access to be able to add this feature.

You will be required to know your FTP hostname or address as well as your domain name. These pieces of information are likely to be well known to you but if you are unaware of what they are, please check the information that you received when you started your dedicated hosting account. There is a strong need to keep hold of this information and correspondence for future reference just in case.

The next step in the procedure requires you to have your FTP username and password. Again, this sort of information should have been provided when your account was set up so if you are unsure of what it is, check back to the correspondence you received when starting your account.

The first time you use the FTP, you should find that you are asked to include a start directory and when prompted, there will be two responses to use. You should answer either "21" or "standard" when asked and this will nearly be you at the end of the process. As you can see, there are only a small amount of steps to carry out to be able to upload files to your dedicated hosting solution which makes it an option that is easy to use.

There are a great range of options to choose from in both of these elements so there should be no difficulties in finding the support you need to make life easier when uploading to your dedicated hosting account.




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