{"id":225,"date":"2017-12-07T02:20:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T02:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/?p=225"},"modified":"2017-12-07T02:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T02:20:46","slug":"ftp-how-to-upload-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/ftp-how-to-upload-files\/","title":{"rendered":"FTP: How to upload files"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Before you start<\/h3>\n<p>To use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/19304?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTP<\/a>, you need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An FTP client\u00a0<em>(e.g. FileZilla, Dreamweaver)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>To know your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/6971?prog_id=ifindhost\">hosting account&#8217;s type<\/a>. This way, you can use the right instructions for your type of hosting\u00a0<em>(e.g. cPanel, Plesk, etc.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>To make sure that account is set up (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16009?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cPanel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16010?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plesk<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/4?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web &amp; Classic<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Your hosting account (FTP) hostname, username and password<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This guide will help you find the information you need to use FTP with your website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">\u00a0<strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>If you are using Managed WordPress, instead see our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/8940?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guide to using sFTP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Find your FTP Settings<\/h3>\n<p>In order to use FTP with your hosting, you will need the following settings from your hosting account.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Setting<\/th>\n<th>What you need<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Your hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\">domain name<\/a> or IP address (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16112?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cPanel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16113?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plesk<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/5232?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web &amp; Classic<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Username<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>Your Primary FTP user (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16100?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cPanel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16101?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plesk<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/4881?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web &amp; Classic<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>(<em>Alternative<\/em>) Create a secondary FTP user (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16044?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cPanel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16048?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plesk<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/1236?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web &amp; Classic<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Password<\/td>\n<td>Reset your FTP password (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16011?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cPanel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16012?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plesk<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/6?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web &amp; Classic<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Upload your website with FTP<\/h3>\n<p>Although\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/97?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we recommend FileZilla for FTP<\/a>, there are many other programs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-website-builder.html\">site-builders<\/a> that use FTP as well. You can use these instructions to upload your site with FTP with the program of your choice.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>FTP Method<\/th>\n<th>Instructions<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FileZilla (recommended)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/104?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">FileZilla: FTP settings to upload your website<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dreamweaver<\/td>\n<td>Publish your website with Dreamweaver (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/5005?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS4<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/5748?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS5<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/7811?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS6<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Adobe Muse<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/8932?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">Adobe Muse: How to publish a website<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>iWeb<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/3425?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">iWeb: Publish your website<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Microsoft Expression Web<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/7623?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">Using Microsoft Expression Web 4 to Create and Upload Your Site<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>More info<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To let other people access your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/\">hosting<\/a> with FTP, you can add more FTP users (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16044?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cPanel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16048?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plesk<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/1236?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web &amp; Classic<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>You can also use FTP to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/20319?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">create a backup of your website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Next step<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>View your website&#8217;s traffic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/8917?prog_id=ifindhost\">Web &amp; Classic<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16179?prog_id=ifindhost\">cPanel<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16180?prog_id=ifindhost\">Plesk<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you start To use\u00a0FTP, you need: An FTP client\u00a0(e.g. FileZilla, Dreamweaver) To know your\u00a0hosting account&#8217;s type. This way, you can use the right instructions for your type of hosting\u00a0(e.g. cPanel, Plesk, etc.) To make sure that account is set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,114],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-steps-windows-hosting-plesk-help","category-windows-hosting-plesk-help","tag-although-we-recommend-filezilla-for-ftp-there-are-many-other-programs-and-site-builders-that-use-ftp-as-well"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}